Sentence examples for ancient smell from inspiring English sources

The ancient smell of fish rose from a hold that hadn't seen a salmon in decades.

Cool – in both senses of the word – metre-thick walls give the whole place a delicious ancient smell, a reminder you are staying in a 14th-century monastery.

An ancient, musty smell rose from its pages.

I'd like to sit under the tree's heart-shaped leaves and ancient branches, smell the incense and butter lamps and flower offerings, listen to the monks chanting sutras.

The ancient city smelled pretty bad with flies everywhere and garbage floated in the canal water.

Wild herbs can be smelled, ancient Milkwood forests with 1,000 year old trees walked through and remote sandy beaches along the coast can be strolled along.

I was was captivated by Yates's writing style and his description of a wooded valley at nightfall, a place he had been riding through, his way lost, on his motorcycle when a medley of evocative scents -- "elder, dog rose, honeysuckle and wild garlic weaving through the denser smell of ancient water" -- caused him to believe that a hidden carp lake was nearby.

If you take one of these items out of its case, trace the weathered edges with a careful finger and smell the ancient traces of tobacco ingrained in the tiny fibers, for a moment you might feel baseball's mystical soul shuddering through your own.

You would have seen the cold fluorescent light glinting off the glazed mosaics and almost smelled the ancient musk of the water dripping onto the tracks.

Once I let go of the unreasonable quest for perfection, I actually noticed where I was: breathing in slightly-salty ocean air, engulfed in ancient and mossy trees, smelling kind of bad and not caring, watching the sun dip into the Pacific.

You need to touch the ancient stones of Hagia Sophia, smell the Rodos clay, and feel the glory of what was once the biggest worship building in the world.