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...years Philadelphia has suffered its Republican city government as it has the water it drank. Both gave off a faint but unpleasant smell, but a true Philadelphian got used to both. This year, after the exposure of graft, extortion and embezzlement in nearly every city office, the smell from City Hall became too much even for torpid Philadelphians...
...overripe prose [Novelist A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s], "And it came on toward night, and the sun was down and the fire of its setting dead, and the coyotes were beginning to yip on the hills and the stars to light up, and there was the good smell of aspen smoke in his nose" [TIME...
...Quaking Aspen Meadow in the Sierras when it comes on toward night, and the sun is down and the fire of its setting dead, and the coyotes are beginning to yip on the hills (very, very eerie) and the stars to light up, and there is the good smell of aspen wood smoke in the air-and nose...
...Covenant is a steaming caldron of 19th Century medical horror that sometimes bubbles over in such phrases as "The love in him wrung its hands in defeat." But more often its galloping, impassioned style exactly conveys the sight and smell of wards full of dying women, the outraged conservatism of doctors who bitterly resisted aseptic surgery, the heartbreak of seeing a lifesaving discovery rejected...
...wend your way down Hanover street, passing peanut vendors and stumping missionaries, you'll notice something different in the air. It's apt to be the smell (ugh) coming from a dozen cheap bars, or the odor (delicious) issuing from the kitchen of the Old Venice Pizzeria. Few things about Hanover street are calculated to make the Dartmouth fugitive nostalgic. The Old Venice does it bit with cheese, tomatoes, clanti, and low prices...