To the untrained nose, the air carried notes of Atlantic coastal breeze, deep-water seafood and F.D.R. Drive exhaust.
What interested the Americans, though, was what they were carrying: notes about a "mass casualty attack" in the US on targets including the Statue of Liberty and a collection of jars and bottles containing "chemical and gel substances".
"The police told me that the kids had to carry notes saying that they had the right to use these cameras, so we had a meeting to decide," she said.
He earned 55 cents by picking blackberries, carrying notes for lovers, and gathering firewood.
Alice wants to see if the dog will carry notes for them as she does for her owners.
At Zojoji, a 600-year-old Buddhist temple in central Tokyo, thousands released balloons at midnight carrying notes with their hopes for 2011.
This garden is startling, original, and breathtakingly strange, though one can still imagine butlers carrying notes about assignations along its paths.
As far back as 1806, the British Navy used kites to carry notes into France, and balloons were used to float messages behind enemy lines during the Siege of Paris in 1848.
The Speaker ticked off David Cameron's Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) and told him his job was just to "nod and carry notes".
John Bercow's said: "His role is to nod his head in the appropriate places, and to fetch and carry notes - no noise required".
