"Smelly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Trigger laughed. "A smelly old hole, actually! Full of froggy sorts of things. I went out to that farm six years ago, just to look around it again. But you're right. I did love ...
— Legacy • James H Schmitz
... university. It proudly claims Blaise Pascal as its distinguished son. It has gardens and broad walks and terraces along the old ramparts, whence one can see the round-backed pride (with its little pip on the top) of the encircling mountain range, the Puy de Dome; and it also has a wilderness of smelly, narrow little streets with fine old seventeenth-century mansions hidden in mouldering court-yards behind dilapidated portes cocheres; it has a beautiful romanesque Church in a hollow, and, on an eminence, an uninteresting restored cathedral whose twin spires dominate the ...
— The Mountebank • William J. Locke
... last he would have succeeded in shaking off the peasant, and the handicraft would be open to him, with its song and its wandering life and its smart journeyman's clothes. The workshop here was no better than a stuffy hole where one sat and slaved over smelly greasy boots, but he saw that one must go through with it in order to reach the great world, where journeymen wore patent-leather shoes on workdays and made footwear fit for kings. The little town had given Pelle a ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo
... right. You're feeling better about it, aren't you? I thought you would. Gracious, what a smelly coat, Claude! I must ...
— One of Ours • Willa Cather
... bracelets kept sniffing and making faces, and remarked something about how pleasant it was to sit with smelly peasants. ...
— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy
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