Word: odorous
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...first attack, had attempted to woo French colonial administrators with honeyed words and attractive trade agreements. The British had also promised that pensions and salaries to all French officials would continue after the British took over. Renewed military operations were an admission that the courtship, tainted with a strong odor of appeasement, had been a failure...
...designed solely for use against their chief enemy, ants. The soldiers' enlarged heads (see cut, p. 38) contain glands which produce a viscous chemical. Some times it is squirted forth in a gooey stream which entangles the attackers, and some times confuses and repels them by its odor...
...remembered the empty paint-mattress-mothballs smell of his Freshman room on the first day, the peculiarly strong wet-earth odor of the Yard after a heavy rain, the mustiness of Sever, and the faint atmosphere of crumbling newsprint that he'd stumbled on when he'd made his only pilgrimage to floor D in the Widener stacks...
...Ralph Delair milked the cow, there came another odor: food sizzling in an iron skillet. Farmer Delair's plump, handsome wife had breakfast waiting: bacon, eggs straight up, orange juice, oatmeal, hot biscuits, home-churned butter, jam she had put up last fall, a big pot of strong black coffee-a big breakfast for a big day's work...
...sewer worker to political boss of Chicago, Edward Joseph Kelly learned not to drop his gs, acquired a hard, shining polish. To his machine's reputation for ballot-stuffing, patronage-grabbing, "muscling" the votes of prostitutes and gamblers, there still clings a sewer-like smell. But the sanctified odor of a Senatorial toga, thought Ed Kelly, might cover that...