Word: smelling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...scent the grape's good smell...
There's a smell of myrrh and acacia, while serpents all glittering glide...
...smell its sweets, pass heedless...
...wondered why so queerly he had lost the sense of smell...
...vegetable described by a recent writer on food and dietetics as "possessing a low nutritive value." Let me call attention to the patience and perseverance of this turnip. Again and again has it left our tables untouched; again and again has it reappeared to tempt us with its fragrant smell. Poor disappointed turnip! Is no one strong enough to carry it forevermore away? At Vassar College, I am assured, the sufferings of this poor vegetable would be short indeed. It is a custom there for the chief cook (or his deputy perchance) to examine the tables after every meal...