"Inodorous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... forgive me, dear Mr. Kenyon. I would propitiate your indulgence for me by a libation of your own eau de Cologne poured out at your feet! It is excellent eau de Cologne, and you are very kind to me, but, notwithstanding all, there is a foreboding within me that my 'conventicleisms' will be inodorous in your nostrils. ...
— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) • Frederic G. Kenyon
... inodorousness^; absence of smell, want of smell. deodorant, deodorization, deodorizer. V. be inodorous &c adj.^; not smell. deodorize. Adj. inodorous^, onodorate; scentless; without smell, wanting smell &c ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... intimidate—such as a horse, a motor-car, a dog, or a lackey. Slossons, those crack solicitors, like the crack nerve specialists in Harley Street and the crack fortune-tellers in Bond Street, sold their invisible, inodorous and intangible wares of advice at double, treble, or decuple their worth, according to the psychology of the customer. They were great bullies. And they were, further, great money-lenders—on behalf of their wealthier clients. In obedience to a convenient theory that it is imprudent ...
— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett
... tastes are water and oil. And what determines the taste is some salt, which affects variously according to its nature, or its manner of being combined with other things. Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness. For as fluidity depends, according to the most general ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12) • Edmund Burke |
