The odorous lilies were immediately evident upon entering the church. From LearnThat.org.
odorous salt pork and weevily hardtack. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
odorous jasmine flowers. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
They're called odorous because they have a coconut - or rum-like smell when crushed. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
Although the project could be described as odorous, Gothenburg will probably take money to help pay for it. From Wordnik.com. [Nebraska StatePaper.com News] Reference
County Legislator Wally Huckno, D-Jamestown, called Mueller's proposal '' odorous '' and. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Journal] Reference
Comparisons are "odorous," we know, as the learned Dogberry hath said; but the writer means nothing unkind by these remarks. From Wordnik.com. [Social relations in our Southern States,] Reference
Recovering himself, and seeing an "odorous" name in the future, he attempted apology and reparation for the insult, and complete reconciliation. From Wordnik.com. [Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865] Reference
The glory of a triumph clings, odorous as incense. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
Rubicund faces; breaths odorous of brandy and water. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
Under the open sky, in the odorous air of the orchard. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
"Under the open sky, in the odorous air of the orchard". From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Hay may be used, but it will be found more or less odorous. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference
Under the sheltering eaves, led up to the odorous cornloft. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
So was her love diffused, but, like to some odorous spices. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
And odorous winds bring fragrance from palm-tops darkly green. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon] Reference
Faint was the air with the odorous breath of magnolia blossoms. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
No trim garden at Rood Hall, no scent from odorous orange blossoms. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
The neighbourhood may be odorous, but it is full of human possibilities. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914] Reference
The railway terminus will be odorous with garlic and the humanity of Italy. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
Fortunately, it often causes itching and an odorous discharge that are hard to ignore. From Wordnik.com. [Better Safe Than Sorry] Reference
One's feet sank into the odorous carpet as in the thick wool of an Oriental prayer rug. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
L'oreille ouverte aux bruits Breathing perfumes of lofty harmonieux des grèves, odorous woods. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
The gleaming white beach lay fringed with its deep deposits of odorous sea-weed, gleaming black. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
As our vessel neared the verdant, palm-clad hills, our party were caressed by warm, odorous breezes. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
Several Vermont officers greeted our friends as they approached, offering the odorous drink to the lady. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865] Reference
This substance is not (as some have thought) vanilline or the odorous principle of vanilla, nor at all like it. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883] Reference
Mixed with paraffine it can be molded into real bayberry candles, ever so much more odorous than those of commerce. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
A steady wind, cool and fragrant with the odorous pines, streamed against them, forced their bodies hard against the crag. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
From the jasmine or orange flower, it floats with its odorous burthen along the current, and lays all its perfume at the foot of. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
Barry peered dubiously at the entrance to a narrow trail winding about the stockade and disappearing into the thick, odorous jungle. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
It is an in-door picture of evening, and of those odorous flowers of life which expand their petals only at the approach of Hesperus. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
In that steaming, reeking river station he was more at home about his ship than tramping through an odorous village on shore business. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
And all the crowd do likewise, laughing merrily; and over them the blossoms shower with every odorous breeze; and with the breeze mingles. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
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