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Sweet Butterflies For 24 years Austin Hobart Clark has been smelling butterflies in & about the District of Columbia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Leading the rain through the thing that is open and making it wet where the smell has been smelling is the hardest way to kill the whole bull that is charging in and running.

From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Stein, Gertrude

Nurse Jane will not mind, and perhaps it will be doing that maid a kindness to let her smell something sweet, after she has been smelling washing-soap-suds all morning.”

From Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard Adventures of the Rabbit Gentleman with the Mother Goose Characters by Garis, Howard Roger

Some bear has been smelling about here, during the night!

From When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)