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She's a country girl at heart with cow manure odoured boots scratch and sniff the soles for a realistic dose of country fun.
Archive 2007-02-01 Teena in Toronto 2007
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She's a country girl at heart with cow manure odoured boots scratch and sniff the soles for a realistic dose of country fun.
Thursday Thirteen #12 Teena in Toronto 2007
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And the long desultory minutes on the ship; the initiation of Soames into its cramped, shining, strangely odoured mysteries.
The Silver Spoon 2004
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Well! Here will I hold the scales over the weltering sea: and also a witness do I choose to look on — thee, the anchorite – tree, thee, the strong – odoured, broad – arched tree that I love! —
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The breath and smell of this sweet-odoured animal are thought in Flintshire to be good against consumption.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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They gave a flaring light with any quantity of bituminous-odoured smoke.
Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian
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In those windy flights in the fishing season there is often the close smell of herring-scale, of bow tar and the bark-tan of the fishing nets; but this stair I climbed for the wherewithal was unusually sweet-odoured and clean, because on the first floor was the house of Provost Brown -- a
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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The belted kingfisher bores into the bank of the river and rears his family of six or eight in the dark, ill-odoured chamber at the end.
The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919
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It seemed as if we could hear the corn growing in the night; under the stars one caught a faint crackling in the dewy, heavy-odoured cornfields where the feathered stalks stood so juicy and green.
My Antonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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We did not find it quite a well-odoured stroll at all points, particularly as we got in the neighbourhood of the church, for we encountered a tangle of streets and alleys some of which were not in the best condition.
John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher William Eldridge 1908
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