"Scent out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... determination for the task that lay ahead—the task of converting the Beni Harb's camp into a shambles. The Arab's face, with white-rimmed eyes and with lips drawn back from teeth, had become that of a wild animal. Rrisa's nostrils were dilated, to scent out the enemy. He was breathing hard, as if he had run ...
— The Flying Legion • George Allan England
... transported forthright all that was in the ship of goods and sending after brokers, sold all that was with her. Presently she took part of the price and began enquiring of the folk, so haply she might scent out tidings of the lost one; and she addressed herself to lavishing alms and preparing medicines for the sick, clothing the naked and watering the dry ground[FN543] of the forlorn. She ceased not so doing a whole year, and little by little ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton |
