peat-smoke

The faint, woodsy, peat-smoke scent of Tresa carried on the arctic wind.

My Soul to Keep Sharie Kohler 2010

Scots – Dutch among the polders, have felt the soft rains of the Hebrides upon his brow, or started in the ranks at the remembered aroma of peat-smoke.

Memories and Portraits 2005

Poor old Janet, bent double with age and bleared with peat-smoke, was tottering about the hut with a birch broom, muttering to herself as she endeavoured to make her hearth and floor a little clean for the reception of her expected guests.

Waverley 2004

Its thatch is hollow; the peat-smoke curls stingily from its stunted chimney.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

Its thatch is hollow; the peat-smoke curls stingily from its stunted chimney.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

‘But it may be of consequence to the state, sir,’ replied an old farmer, smelling strongly of whisky and peat-smoke; ‘and I doubt we maun delay your journey till you have seen the Laird.’

Waverley 2004

To put a little barbaric splendor of decoration into the little smoking-room, to have a scent of peat-smoke in the air, and to have a timid, sweet-voiced, pretty Highland girl suddenly make her appearance, with an odor of the sea about her, as it were, and a look of fresh breezes in the color of her cheeks, -- what mortal man could find fault with this innocent jest?

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

And when Lavender went with wonder into this small room, when he smelt the fragrant peat-smoke -- and every one knows how powerful the sense of smell is in recalling bygone associations -- when he saw the smoking salmon and the bottled beer and the whisky, and when he suddenly found Mairi coming into the room and saying to him, in her sweet Highland fashion, "And are you ferry well, sir?"

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

The peat-smoke still lingered in the air: she could not have wished anything to be better.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

If the great and frail masses of flowers on the table brought her any perfume at all, it was a scent of peat-smoke.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various