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Nighttime hygiene is discouraged; a freshened-up camper in a sleeping bag is yet another smellable.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since the human body at normal temperature radiates heat waves chiefly m the 7�-14 band, it looked as if the ability to absorb heat waves on the "body's broadcast frequency" is what makes vapors smellable.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was a thorough-going realist, living in a tangible, smellable world of reality, and he knew us for what we were—marauders, disturbers of the proper respectable peace of twentieth century farms.

From The Jervaise Comedy by Beresford, J. D. (John Davys)

In one it is revealed by one of our five senses, visible, tangible, smellable, tastable, or ponderable matter.

From Ancient and Modern Physics by Willson, Thomas E.

On the walls snow-shoes, fishing-lines, dried fish in smellable bunches, a portrait of the Okapi from Outing, and a musical clock that played with painful persistence the first three bars of "God Save the King."

From The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake by Seton, Ernest Thompson