"Olfactory" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in an aggrieved tone, "it is incomprehensible that you should have such a total disregard for the delicacy of my constitution,—especially when you know that the very odor of the stable is abhorrent to my olfactory senses. Atalanta has quarters provided for her at the Vernon Livery, and one of the grooms has orders to bring the carriage to the door at two o'clock ...
— A Beautiful Possibility • Edith Ferguson Black
... Porcius Cato, from whom it was called the "Porcian Basilica." Twenty others were afterwards erected at different periods in the city. The loungers here mentioned, in the present instance, were probably sauntering about under the porticos of the Basilica, when their olfactory nerves were offended by the unsavoury smell of ...
— The Captiva and The Mostellaria • Plautus
... her olfactory nerves becoming strongly excited, she insisted upon having a search, and after snuffing about, she came near my hiding-place, and found the little ...
— Louis' School Days - A Story for Boys • E. J. May
... the surgeon: "I cannot imagine what pleasure there can be in a practice in itself so nasty, independent of the destruction of the olfactory powers." ...
— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat
... experience has taught these officials to locate the compounds, wherein millions of oysters are to decompose, in positions where the trade winds waft the smells seaward or inland, without greatly affecting the camp's health. The British official whose olfactory organ survives a season at the pearl camp deserves from his home government at least ...
— East of Suez - Ceylon, India, China and Japan • Frederic Courtland Penfield
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