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Their lantern, swinging on the lad's finger, threw a path of light before them, showing the short cropped grass, the rushy patches, or the gall they trod odorously, or the heather in its rare clumps.

From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Munro, Neil

He wiped the bottle carefully, inspected it briefly, and pitched it into the gully, where it smashed odorously upon a rock.

From The Uphill Climb by Bower, B. M.

On Monday morning, when Beatrice and Anna came downstairs, they found the breakfast odorously cooling on the table, and nobody in the room.

From Anna of the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold

The Commission had reserved its decision, and the newspapers had gone off on a number of other scents of wrong-doing that seemed more odorously promising.

From Together by Herrick, Robert

The state is odorously rotten—but everything else is charming.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry