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She already smelt strongly of verbena, and in five minutes she left the room, and he immediately asked me: 'Who is that girl? 'Why ... my new lady's maid. 'Where did you pick her up? 'Baroness de Grangerie got her for me with the best references. 'Ah! she is rather pretty! 'Do you think so? 'Why, yes ... for a lady's maid.
Right Reverend Firmian had not been long in Salzburg till he smelt out the Crypto-Protestantism, and determined to haul it forth from the mythical condition into the practical; and in fact, to see his law-beagles there worry it to death as they ought.
The salmon, toasting on sticks over wood coals, smelt very appetising. "Why, your fish are whole. Don't you clean 'em first?" asked the visitor, surprised out of his manners. "No," said Nicholas; "him better no cut." They sat down by the fire, and the Princess waited on them. The Boy discovered that it was perfectly true.
The Badger's winter stores, which indeed were visible everywhere, took up half the room piles of apples, turnips, and potatoes, baskets full of nuts, and jars of honey; but the two little white beds on the remainder of the floor looked soft and inviting, and the linen on them, though coarse, was clean and smelt beautifully of lavender; and the Mole and the Water Rat, shaking off their garments in some thirty seconds, tumbled in between the sheets in great joy and contentment.
He came primarily to burn charcoal for the rude adobe furnaces that had been erected by the Lesynzskys to smelt the free ores of the famous Longfellow mine in Chase Creek Canyon, a few miles above Clifton. For charcoal Solomon found abundant material in an almost unbroken mesquite forest that stretched for many miles along the river.
Order pasties and souse-fish and a butt of malmsey; see the great hall is properly decored for my Lord Bishop of Carisbury, who will take his ambigue and bait his steeds at this castle." Miss Joliffe stared; she saw a bottle and an empty tumbler on the table, and smelt a strong smell of whisky; and the mirth faded from Mr Sharnall's face as he read her thoughts.
"He couldn't," cried Marcus. "Think not? Then he'd have scratched a way for himself under the door." "Well, but then?" "Oh, then he'd have stood and smelt about till he'd got hold of our scent, and then come on." "What, all this way and all this time? The scent couldn't have lain so long."
Behold, O blessed one, learned sacrificers duly casting seven libations in seven ways in the seven fires, viz., that which is smelt, that which is drunk, that which is seen, that which is touched, as also that which is heard, that which is thought of, and that which is understood, create them in their own wombs.
Then I heard him give a sharp sniff; and I smelt it too that same odour of burnt oil.
If, up to then, this African Mecca had only been visited by the travelers of the ancient world Batouta, Khazan, Imbert, Mungo Park, Adams, Laing, Caille, Barth, Lenz, on that day by a most singular chance the two Americans could boast of having seen, heard, and smelt it, on their return to America if they ever got back there.
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