Example Sentences

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The Commission had reserved its decision, and the newspapers had gone off on a number of other scents of wrong-doing that seemed more odorously promising.

From Together by Herrick, Robert

The state is odorously rotten—but everything else is charming.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

The sweet wind danced on airy feet in and out of the cypresses and the gums, kissed them, stole their breath, and tossed it abroad odorously.

From The Purple Heights by Oemler, Marie Conway

He wiped the bottle carefully, inspected it briefly, and pitched it into the gully, where it smashed odorously upon a rock.

From The Uphill Climb by Bower, B. M.

The kitchens, stables and outhouses were odorously barbaric in squalor.

From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet