Example Sentences

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The girl put on her fouled makgabe and ran home to her parents, singing: Mother, open the door for me, I am smelling.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith

I wonder if I can smell the smoke of their wood fires, more than thirty miles away, or if it is only our fort’s fires I am smelling.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

Mother, open the door for me, I am smelling.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith

"I am smelling for sweet roots," was the answer.

From Umboo, the Elephant by Garis, Howard Roger

"The fish is burning," he said, "and the oat cakes too; for I am smelling them ben the house;" and Janet ran to her fireside, and hastily turned her herring and cakes.

From A Knight of the Nets by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston