Word: odore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read the newspapers' reports of Wheeler's attack on me. The newspapers said it was vitriolic. It was not vitriolic. Vitriol leaves a mark. Wheeler's attack is more like surphurated hygrogen, which leaves a temporary and disagreeable odor...
...outcry, it could issue from no animal throat. . . . Somewhere out where the hispid branches swayed, I know there was a man with white canine teeth giving vent to BLACK LAUGHTER! ... A long time passed . . . then gradually I began to realize that the room had become filled with an extraordinary odor, an odor of putrifying blood and rotting flesh, the odor and breath of a hyena." When day comes he looks out and sees "stamped in the dust of the threshold, two indents- one the footprint of a man; and the other the padded dog's spoor of an erect...
...whose twilight incredible beasts wage their truceless wars and come down by night to drink from the river-pools under the swinging constellations of the Cross- constellations that see, here and there, man's fugitive campfires, how dwarfed in that illimitable waste! Reading, one can almost detect an odor, acrid, animal, exciting -the smell of Africa...
...Christmas mass. My father and a few others. . . . I remember I followed my mother. In the church there were many lights and on the altar, in a little flowered crib, the Child born in the night. It was all picturesque and it satisfied my fancy. The odor of the incense alone disturbed me so that sometimes it gave me unbearable discomfort. At last the notes of the organ closed the ceremony. The crowd swarmed out. Along the street was a satisfied chatter. At midday there smoked on our table the traditional and excellent noodles of Romagna...
...From this date on dismissal without opportunity for appeal will be the penalty imposed on any man found to have the odor of beer, wine or other liquor on his breath, or to have intoxicants on his person or in his house...