What is "woodsmoke"

Usage examples of "woodsmoke".

And then she had quite lost track of what was happening, save that whenever she drifted to the surface of the fever, the boys were still there, talking to her and each other, the murmur of their voices a small anchor to reality and their hands never leaving her, stroking and smoothing and the sharp smell of gallberries cutting through the woodsmoke from the hearth and the scent of beeswax from the candle.

As if dazzled by too many sensa, he moved through a wall of little sounds and odours: sizzling meats and conversational tidbits, woodsmoke and scorched oil and icevine burning thick and sweet.

Far to the east woodsmoke rises in front of Zuni Ridge without enough wind to smudge it.

Heat made the air shimmer above the kilns, which to the Unam chieftain looked like little gray huts, and the quarry was dense with drifting woodsmoke.

Some kind of dire temperature inversion had clamped itself down over the city like a bell jar, trapping and concentrating the cocktail of dust, automobile exhaust, coal smoke, woodsmoke, manure smoke, and the ammoniated gasses that rose up from the stewn excreta of millions of people and animals.

The coppices and woodlands were painted with color, and the smell of woodsmoke drifted on the breeze.

The old woman's body smelled of woodsmoke and animal fat and wild herbs, but it was not offensive and her warmth comforted Centaine, and after a while she slept again, this time without the nightmares.

I could smell heather and bay laurel and the frail scent of woodsmoke drifting from the cabins tucked in along the ridge.

He would ride in dusty and tired, his hands stiff from the rope or the branding iron, from twenty hours of work in a single day, but he had the smell of horses and woodsmoke about him.

Tonight it seemed smothering, added as it was to woodsmoke and candle wax, to the close, acrid smells of male bodies and the reek of illnessa mingled scent of sweaty sheets and used chamber pots-all trapped together in the room's stale air.

Jordan pushed open the door of the kitchen and it smelled of woodsmoke and curry powder and carbolic soap.

Lyle chewed over this, hating the wind blowing against his back, the smell of woodsmoke drifting across from the city choking his throat.

Her hair smelt of woodsmoke and the sharp, clear tang of juniper berries.

Crisp autumn weekends, the smell of woodsmoke and burning leaves in his nostrils, the rustling peacefulness of the forest in the Virginia hills, the golds, bitter oranges, ochers in the trees and underfoot, a sweet odor emanating from the springy forest floor which his father once told him was decay.

The cold sweet scent of the peach blossom mixed with cooking, horses and woodsmoke.