They had lit fires of damp straw to keep the bugs away; the sharp-smelling smoke coiled around.
Breathing through these books is a whiff, sharp as wood smoke, of mortality and impending darkness, but even that proves not unwelcome.
I could almost taste the freshly turned soil and cigarette smoke, sharp from the unfiltered tobacco they used.
The thought flickered through Dave Roberts' mind when his vision was still clear and his hearing still sharp, before the smoke from in-stadium pyrotechnics clouded the diamond and the blare of the train whistle at Minute Maid Park embedded in his memory.
He was fat and funny and wore a homburg, spectator shoes, and sharp suits, and smoked a huge Mexican cigar.
Then, for lunch, the kitchen dishes up numerous varieties of mix 'n' match wraps and open sandwiches (tiny, moreish meatballs in a sweet, sharp beetroot cream; smoked mackerel with fennel and crushed peas), accompanied by various salads.
The deep skillet creates a molten core of pepper jack and three cheddars (sharp, white, and smoked) that would make any mac lover want to do Dallas.
Yellow light pooled in the windows of log houses, and the sharp smell of wood smoke filled the air.
Roden had expected simple food in what is still a largely undiscovered region of green fields and streams running from mountain caves (where the shepherds smoke a sharp local blue cheese called Cabrales) to the fishing villages of the Atlantic coast.
Instead, the album draws more subtly from these supernatural influences, ascribing an abundantly gothic morosity to Smoke's sharp looping productions.
The setting is a rambling old British country estate where trim dinner jackets and shimmering silk dresses are worn; cigarettes are smoked with sharp inhalations that create perfect concavities of cheekbone; and the air is thick with class tension and sexual anxiety.
