odd-scented

Updated: May 7, 2025

I must confess the poisoning of Pyecraft struck me as an immense undertaking. That evening I took that queer, odd-scented sandalwood box out of my safe and turned the rustling skins over. The gentleman who wrote the recipes for my great-grandmother evidently had a weakness for skins of a miscellaneous origin, and his handwriting was cramped to the last degree.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Twelve Stories and a Dream

I must confess the poisoning of Pyecraft struck me as an immense undertaking. That evening I took that queer, odd-scented sandal-wood box out of my safe, and turned the rustling skins over. The gentleman who wrote the recipes for my great-grandmother evidently had a weakness for skins of a miscellaneous origin, and his handwriting was cramped to the last degree.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories