Word: odorous
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...could not have pointed with pride to the texture, the shape, the odor of her product. It would have been coarse, ill-shapen, irritating to the skin, offensive to the nose. Guests would have shunned the White House bathrooms. Servants would have departed in disgust and fury rather than wash dishes with thrifty, housewifely soap. Wisely, Mrs. Coolidge chose to purchase soap made of the finest oils, boiled in steam-heated, 1,000,000-lb. urns, purified of complexion-destroying acids, perfumed with flowered scents, shaped to beguile both hand...
...walked meditatively around it. She saw where she could alter the hang, and, stooping over, with swift fingers pinned folds here, there. The negligee fit smartly. Lane Bryant slipped it off her customer; basted it; stitched it quickly. And her home work room ? hung with the musty odor of thread, cloth and warm flat-irons ? became the core of seven large and busy specialty stores ? hung with the musty odor of face-powder, perfume and new clothes...
...Significance. André Maurois in-itroduces Author Green as "the best novelist of his generation." Others have declared him Balzacian, and murmured of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, for his uncanny realism is not of the modern self-conscious variety. Master of detail-heavy odor of wistaria over the garden wall, crunch of wheels on the gravel, pebbles shaping the brook into a plaited pattern-no single word is superfluous, and each image blends into an unforgettable whole...
...served with butter). While some of the recipes thus draw their charm almost entirely from an exotic name, most teem with lucious promise. Even the grossest of non-gourmets might read on after encountering the book's first sentence: "In America the name of garlic is in bad odor." To which the author adds: "This conception is a libel upon garlic and upon the land of garlic eaters...
When on Commencement mooring the Sheriff of Middlesex Country comes slowly forward in front of the platform, pounds his aword three times up on the boards, and says "The assembly will now come to order," a distinct odor of the past pervades the impromptu behind Sever. For the words spoken now for many years by Sheriff Fahburn were spoken on the came occasion by his predecessors for more then a hundred years before his day. The calling to order of the "assembly" of black-gowned students, their families, and the customary "puellae" is one of the oldest of Harvard traditions...