Odours

It will also stop methane, which is a powerful greenhouse gas, from being released into the atmosphere and prevent odours from the piggery wafting across the Corowa township. ❋ Unknown (2005)

There are strange sights and sounds strange "odours," even and the party eventually encounters their lost friend, or something that looks something like him. ❋ Arbogast (2008)

It seems to be an exception to the rule that "odours" (as distinct from pungent vapours or gases) are only produced by substances formed by plants or animals. ❋ Unknown (1888)

"odours" but corrosive chemical vapours, which act painfully upon the nerves of common sensation within the air-passages of the nose and throat and not exclusively, if at all, on the terminations of the olfactory nerves. ❋ Unknown (1888)

"Carry with infinite devotion that vase of many odours which is your Life on Earth. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)

Unfortunately, some of us have to live with families who are less than accepting of culinary odours * cough cough*. ❋ Sarah (2009)

For want of a better description, this was a shadowed place, as I imagined the Glencoe of school's textbooks, and if colours had odours, grey would smell of the moor, damp, bleak and foreboding. ❋ Gill Hoffs (2011)

I claim second blood on this rank specimen: although I had already sniffed at his curious expenses claims, I had not noticed the far more noxious odours from his properties claims -- the London Evening Standard got there in one. ❋ Norfolk Blogger (2009)

We now stress that the location of the cadaver odours signifies that physically the body (cadaver) is not on the place, marked by the dog, but certainly it has been there, as long as the dog signals it. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

Bassett, who strode into press conferences giving off old-fashioned British manly odours of lanolin, talcum powder and social discomfort, has unfortunately remained predictably tight-lipped on the topic. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Strange, vagrant odours come drifting along the greasy wind, and the rain, when it falls, is more like grease than water from heaven. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The spring air dug deep into our lungs and filled them with greening odours. ❋ Jack Canfield (2011)

"Amidst whole heaps of spices lights a ball, / And now their odours arm'd against them fly: / Some preciously by shatter'd porcelain fall, / And some by aromatic splinters die." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Stray and awful odours, drifting from each side of the trail, told of the horses that had died in the rush for gold. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All about him was the debris of the feast, and he scented the smouldering odours of dying fires and burnt meat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Teenager George Whitehead was scowl-perfect as the underachieving Mark, a boy lost between his absent dad and his wheedling, benefits-dependent mother (played with bleary-eyed authenticity by Juliet Cowan), while Bryan Dick nailed the embattled Mr Bately, slowly turning the classroom from a zoo (convincingly wrought, for a change – redolent of latent mischief and feral odours) to a place of aspirant industry. ❋ Phil Hogan (2010)

/Whence these legends and traditions,/With the odours of the forest,/With the dew and damp of meadows, "it's easy to demonstrate how such rigidity would ruin the latter simply by introducing it, creating a travesty of Blake's verse:" Tyger! ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

Scenting Ocean all around them with strange odours soft as sleep — ❋ Unknown (2010)