sweet-smelling
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Sweet-smelling dynamite and ammonium nitrate fumes poured into the tunnel from a cavern where some 30 to 40 tons of ore had just been blasted loose.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“What is this, then? You have beautiful hair. Luxuriant tresses, I would say. Sweet-smelling despite your recent ordeal. Do you call this nothing?”
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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Sweet-smelling peaches simmered on the stove in one huge pot while canning jars bubbled away in another pot.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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Sweet-smelling, whose pure kinds I could not know.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney
And in the sweltring heate of summer time, I would make cabinets for thee, my love; Sweet-smelling arbours made of eglantine Should be thy shrine, and I would be thy dove.
From The Affectionate Shepherd by Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard)