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Definition of Smelled
1. smell [v] - See also: smell
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smelled
Literary usage of Smelled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"The Universal Love for the Sea — Sailor Life — A Tale of Shipwreck and Starvation —
An Unconscious Hero — An Old Sailor's Story — "I smelled the Sea an' ..."
2. The Course of Time: A Poem, in Ten Books by Robert Pollok, William Jenks (1828)
"... and locked in close And riotous embrace, turned pale, and cold, And died, and
smelled of putrefaction rank; Turned, in the very moment of delight, ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... that at the very sight of physic he would be distempered," though he never so
much as smelled to it, the box of physic long after would give him a purge ..."
4. The Simple Life by Ruth King Porter (2006)
"IT WAS WARM outside, and the air smelled fresh. The sun was much brighter than
it had been when Isabel went in. She followed Leroy down the sidewalk to his ..."
5. The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America by Fredrika Bremer (1853)
"I went up, lifted the lid of one, and saw that the vessel contained warm, steaming
food, which smelled very good. Some of them were filled with brown beans, ..."
6. Ordered to China: Letters of Wilbur J. Chamberlin Written from China While by Wilbur J. Chamberlin (1903)
"The place smelled to heaven, like all Chinese cities, and I was glad enough to
get out of it, I can tell you. I'm going back again, 'however, to-morrow, ..."
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