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Updated: May 27, 2025
He turned his back on the little town and set off up the hill again, while the wind slipped through the hedge beside him in and out of the blackthorn boughs, lisping, whispering, snuffling, sniffing, like a small inquisitive animal.
At a distance of about six feet the big cat stopped, and crouched, glaring with wide, pale eyes, and sniffing eagerly. Mrs. Gammit was amazed that the porcupines did not at once discharge a volley at him and fill him full of quills for his intrusion. The wildcat knew too much about porcupines to dream of attacking them. It was what they were eating that interested him.
All the lore that had been pounded into him at the base began to make some sense to Ross as he followed his guide, sniffing strange wet smells from the brush, the trees, and the damp earth; piecing together in his mind what he had been taught and what he now saw for himself, until it made a tight pattern.
With the wind in her hair she climbed the slope again to the garden ground, where she found a solemn-eyed collie sniffing the fragrant wind in his morning stroll. Breakfast over, the forenoon hung heavy on her hands.
"Had you, Izzy?" He drew himself upward, clutching at her arms; and the sobs began to tear him afresh. "They had me, Renie." "Oh, Izzy, why " "I could have paid it back. I could have put it back if the old skinflint hadn't got to sniffing round and sicked 'em on my books. I could have won it all back in time, Renie.
He 'ad been a fine-looking chap in 'is day, and even then 'e was enough like me for me to see 'ow she 'ad made the mistake; and all the time she was telling me 'ow it 'appened, he was looking me up and down and sniffing. "'Ave you got a cold?" I ses, at last. "Wot's that got to do with you?" he ses. "Wot do you mean by walking out with my wife? That's what I've come to talk about."
The following morning would find the wharf swarming with stevedores and echoing to the rattle of trucks, the clank of hoists, and the shrill whistles of the signalmen. "Looks like they couldn't stop us now," said Balt. "It does," agreed Emerson. "We ought to clear in four days that'll be the 15th." "It smells like an early spring, too," the fisherman observed, sniffing the air.
But I'm free t' say," regarding the streaks and thumb-marks with quick disfavour, "that it looks a lot like her." My sister smiled upon me with an air of loftiest superiority. "Smell it again," said she. "Well," I admitted, after sniffing long and carefully, "I does seem t' have got wind o' " "There's no deceivin' a woman's nose," my sister declared, positively.
An occasional dog would come running by, sniffing at the offals lying around and with a snort of disgust passing on toward the neighboring porticos, where the butchers were holding forth. The fish-women who had been playfully twitting each other an hour before in their tartanas or at the customs house now sat watching each other, whenever a marketer came along, with hostile jealousy.
She always did this in a very short-sighted way, taking up the letters one by one, holding each very close to her eyes, and sniffing at it as though she were trying to read through the envelope. This always irritated Maggie, although her own letters were not very many.
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