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They didn’t dare risk the salmon cakes; the bear would have smelt them from many daywalks away.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

After we have smelt burning powder I fancy these youngsters 39 will keep a civil tongue in their heads, and until then I had best care for myself.”

From Corporal 'Lige's Recruit A Story of Crown Point and Ticonderoga by Otis, James

That the suspiciously-red noses of the newspaper men should have smelt the "immoral conduct" of Maxim Gorky, was really very fortunate for the latter.

From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Goldman, Emma

She'd have smelt the whole thing out in no time.

From The Whirligig of Time by Williams, Wayland Wells

Listen--I have smelt the nitrogen myself, but as for the black carbon, what becomes of it?

From An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. I (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) by Reuter, Fritz