Running into the marsh among the familiar
scents of roots, marsh plants, and slime, and the extraneous smell of horse dung, Laska detected at once a smell that pervaded the whole marsh, the
scent of that strong-smelling bird that always excited her more than any other.
And over walls and earth and trees and swinging sprays and tendrils the fair green veil of tender little leaves had crept, and in the grass under the trees and the gray urns in the alcoves and here and there everywhere were touches or splashes of gold and purple and white and the trees were showing pink and snow above his head and there were fluttering of wings and faint sweet pipes and humming and
scents and
scents.
The air was spicily and sweetly heavy with the
scents of wild aromatic plants and gorgeous tropic blooms.
Ghostlike
scents crept out of the meadows to meet us, and the fir wood before we came to the church was a living sweetness of Junebells growing in abundance.
He sought and found a wide game trail and at last his nostrils were rewarded with the
scent of the fresh spoor of Bara, the deer.
If there were anything in recent juxtaposition to the attacked which would carry the
scent, surely that would supply the missing cause."
Here the Emperor sent his minister for Li Po, and here the great lyrist set her mortal beauty to glow from the
scented, flower-haunted balustrade immortally through the twilights yet to come.
"It's the turn of our house to find
scent for big-side hare-and- hounds," exclaimed Tadpole.
"Aren't they beautiful?" the girl asked, as she breathed in the spicy
scent of the bright flowers.
He had gone inland about half a mile when there came suddenly to his trained nostrils the one
scent that sets the whole savage jungle aquiver--Tarzan smelled man.
Immediately he took up the trail he had come in search of, following it by
scent down into a deep ravine.
As he neared the river, the leader paused often, cocking his ears and raising his muzzle to sniff the gentle breeze for the tell-tale
scent spoor of the dread flesh-eaters.