Word: odour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feast! ". . . The high meat of the 'idiwitsi' [long dead seal] is the most highly prized of all foods, native or imported. There was no halfheartedness about the men as each one proceeded to hack away an enormous portion for himself. Little by little a powerful odour pervaded the whole hut. . . . [Others] were cutting up, carving, drinking large handfuls of sticky blood, shouting, licking their fingers, masticating, swallowing, stuffing themselves with meat and fat, sucking at fragments of intestine. . . . Men, women and children alike were besmeared with purplish blood." Author Victor ate a little piece too, found it "sharp...
...vicinity of midnight a strange visitor with a large box under his arm staggered into the building. In a few moments the door of the third floor ward was silently opened. With that indescribable odour that pervades hospital wards there was suddenly blended the invigorating perfume of beer, not faintly but distinctly and unmistakably. Silently the nocturnal visitor stepped from bed to bed, anxiously studying the sleeping faces, searching, searching. Apparently satisfied after traversing half the ward and arousing several light sleepers, he placed his burden on the foot of a bed, turned and stalked from the room...