He missed the market top, too, going to cash in 1928 when he smelled impending disaster.

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Not that he smelled bad, but that his sense of smell was as acute as a canine's.

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The old man screwed up his face as though he smelled carrion.

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He smelled of hair oil and some kind of food.

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He smelled of cigarettes, of other people.

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He smelled sharply of sweat.

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He smelled like her youth.

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He smelled the hoses.

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What he had smelled in the car, he realized, had had alcohol in it, mixed with licorice from long ago.

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Andrew Stocker, the duty manager who has worked at the theatre for 30 years and who also conducts tours, tells how one night a security guard was checking the back door in the Pitt corridor was locked when he suddenly smelled lavender perfume waft across his face.

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Verrazzano, an Italian in command of a French ship, smelled America before he saw it: "A sweet fragrance, " he wrote, wafted out to sea from the dense cedar forests of the Carolinas.

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He wore a scent, smelled like high-school boy.

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He had serious burns and smelled of petrol.

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Witnesses reported he was bleeding, disoriented and smelled of alcohol, according to a police report on the incident released Friday.

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The first thing Wiens could smell was lasagna at the hospital, which smelled "delicious, " he said.

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Washington (CNN) -- A pilot in Minnesota who was preparing to fly a commercial jet halfway across the country was arrested after a security agent smelled alcohol on him and he failed a preliminary breath test, airport police said Friday.

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"I smelled smoke and came down, " he said.

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He was twice arrested for drunk driving, and his breath smelled of alcohol in court.

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Later that week, as he watched a news report about Medicine Hat, Mr. Evanson smelled a rat.

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