deodorised

Ashtrays were emptied and polished, carpets cleaned and deodorised, lingering fingerprint smears of desperation removed from the brass fixtures and fittings.

Archive 2006-06-01 DAVID BISHOP 2006

Ashtrays were emptied and polished, carpets cleaned and deodorised, lingering fingerprint smears of desperation removed from the brass fixtures and fittings.

Archive 2006-06-01 DAVID BISHOP 2006

They saw war as they saw history, through an iridescent mist, deodorised, scented indeed, with all its essential cruelties tactfully hidden away.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

The solid fats sold as butter and lard substitutes, consist of deodorised cocoanut oil, and they are excellent for cooking purposes.

The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan

This episode is retained, in spite of the work of purification which has been performed; and it may be said that if the original novel were nastier than this deodorised edition of it, it is very much of a wonder how the critical stomach kept it down.

My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray

The mingled waters of the Wey and Mole and Wandle ran in rectangular channels; and wherever a gentle elevation of the ground permitted a fountain of deodorised sewage distributed its benefits athwart the land and made a rainbow of the sunlight.

Tales of Space and Time 1906

They saw war as they saw history, through an iridescent mist, deodorised, scented indeed, with all its essential cruelties tactfully hidden away.

The War in the Air 1906

Rabelais is mere nastiness, which is only attractive to a very small minority of persons at any age, while to expert readers it is but a time-deodorised dunghill by the roadside, not beautiful, but negligible.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

If the Emperor would but have the town and its inhabitants deodorised, few places would be better worth visiting than Vienne.

Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland 1881

Time and regimental whitewash have swept these lurking-places of old crime very bare; but the parable of the seven devils is true in more senses than one, and the ghosts that return to haunt a deodorised, disinfected, garnished sepulchre are almost more ghastly than those which have never been disturbed from their old habitations.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866