"We'll see black water, we'll see orange water, there's often times an odor, " Stolz said.

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It smells like mice, mold, and something else, too, something very old as though time itself had an odor.

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It certainly has an odor to it that many people will find offensive.

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Still, the accumulating scandals were adding an odor of corruption to all the other issues the congressional Republicans had to address in the mid-term elections.

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In 2006, an odor complaint was received by the environmental-quality commission.

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What she remembered most about her mother was the patchouli scent of her skin, underneath which hid a more elusive, dirty smell, an odor that Candy yearned to excavate whenever Sylvie was near.

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So when engineers noticed an odd odor in the interior of the Ford Transit Connect van last year, for instance, they summoned the smell jury, which traced it back to a sealant used by a supplier.

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Pundits have portrayed Obama as an oversharer and a taskmaster, demeaning her husband by acknowledging his morning breath and his body odor.

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