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  • I didn't list any mainstream shorts, though "Odour of Chrysanthemums" by D.H. Lawrence would probably top the list.

    Peadar Ó Guilín’s birthday! marshallpayne1 2009

  • A few Stems of Asparagus eaten, shall give our Urine a disagreeable Odour; and a Pill of Turpentine no bigger than a Pea, shall bestow on it the pleasing Smell of Violets.

    Chris Rodda: To the United States Marine Corps -- re: Farting in Afghanistan Chris Rodda 2011

  • Hueffer then commissioned the story Odour of Chrysanthemums which, when published in that magazine, encouraged Heinemann, a London publisher, to ask Lawrence for more work.

    d.h. lawrence | we are transmitters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

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    Come Get Your Free Crap 2008

  • Lawrence's story "Odour of Chrysanthemums" begins like this: "The small locomotive engine, number 4, came clanking, stumbling down from Selston -- with seven full wagons."

    Details joshenglish 2008

  • Hueffer then commissioned the story Odour of Chrysanthemums which, when published in that magazine, encouraged Heinemann, a London publisher, to ask Lawrence for more work.

    March « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

  • Incorruptible bodies are often said to have the Odour of Sanctity, a sweet smell ... if a body remains incorruptible after death, this is generally seen to be a sign that the individual is a saint.

    Incorruptible and Forever Heather McDougal 2007

  • Incorruptible bodies are often said to have the Odour of Sanctity, a sweet smell ... if a body remains incorruptible after death, this is generally seen to be a sign that the individual is a saint.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Heather McDougal 2007

  • Take, for example, a phrase from his celebrated story 'Odour of Chrysanthemums' 1911: a miner lies dead in a living-room, stretched out in 'the naive dignity of death'.

    grahamsleight's Journal rozk 2005

  • Odour drawn out of fallen leaves by the pale-filtering sunlight soaked his nostrils.

    In Chancery 2004

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