Example Sentences

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Marg is scenting Burke for Jed and his kind to catch—that’s her way and Jed’s!”

From The Man Thou Gavest by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)

But she did not answer very promptly, even when he had added, "Wanhope, here, is scenting something psychological in the reason of my laughing at you, instead of accepting the plain inference in the case."

From Questionable Shapes by Howells, William Dean

Do you see, a magpie is chattering on a windfall: the bird is scenting the bear from a distance.

From Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And while to this lone cave my deep grief I'm venting, The Saxon's keen bandog my footstep is scenting, But true men await me afar in Duhallow, Farewell, cave of slaughter, and Mairgr�ad ni Chealleadh.

From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

Listening to the old man's hoarse and confident voice, Foma thought: "He is scenting death, it seems."

From The Man Who Was Afraid by Bernstein, Herman