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Letter "O" » odors
«There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.»
Author: Alison Lurie
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About:
War
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Keywords:
ashy,
begun,
cookie,
cookies,
explosives,
odor,
odors,
scorch,
scorched,
scorching,
smoking room
«Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.»
«?She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air.?»
Author: Kate Chopin
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Author,
Novelist,
Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Feminism,
Suicide
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Keywords:
bees,
cavalry,
chained,
clang,
clanging,
Edna,
flamed,
hum,
humming,
Hums,
musky,
odor,
odors,
officer,
pinks,
porch,
porches,
sank,
spurs,
sycamore,
The Hum
«Far from the city's dust and heat,I get but sounds and odors sweet.Who can wonder I love to stay,Week after week, here hidden away,In this sly nook that I love the best --This little brown house like a ground-bird's nest?»
«Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poet)
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About:
Memory,
Music
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Keywords:
odors,
quicken,
quickening,
quickens,
sicken,
sickened,
sickens,
vibrate,
vibrated,
Vibrates,
vibrating,
violets,
voices
«Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out»
«All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of wate»
Author: Theodore Roethke
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Poet)
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Keywords:
basswood,
bright blue,
finite,
freshly,
frozen,
infinitude,
infinitudes,
light upon,
odor,
odors,
pines,
Shine On,
singular,
slope,
slopes
«Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.»
«It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.»
Author: Marcel Proust
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Author,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
abandoning,
autumn,
branches,
bury,
comforting,
impenetrable,
lie in,
moaning,
odors,
warmth
«Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odor»