As I stepped out of my car at the hospital, at five-twenty the next morning, I inhaled deeply, smelling the eucalyptus and … was that pine?
As I stepped out of my car at the hospital, at five-twenty the next morning, I inhaled deeply, smelling the eucalyptus and... was that pine?
He inhaled deeply, smelling things he knew: the mesquite in the air, the leftover smoke of the next-door neighbor's barbecue, the distant chemical odor of the Salton Sea.
I lifted the manuscript and inhaled deeply to smell the paper and ink.
We'd been driving for about 10 minutes in the dark, tracking the animals by their spoor, when he suddenly slowed, inhaled deeply and whispered, "Smell the leopard dung".
Time on Earth may be uncertain and fleeting, but nearly everyone has enough of it to take some deep breaths, think deep thoughts and smell some roses, deeply.
I edged in behind the last pew, comfortably anonymous, and breathed deeply the smell of incense as I watched the priest prepare for the service.
Eating too much red meat, meanwhile, can produce a deeply unpleasant smell later, which tells you that you may need to cut back your consumption.
Our current reality shows are devoted to documenting the wealthy, the plastic and the vacuous not the downtrodden, not the lonely and not the deeply dented souls who smell like whiskey and tap their cigarettes out in colorless ashtrays.
I inhaled deeply and I smelt the icon in front of me, before kissing it: it was not an olfactory hallucination.
