| Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...noun.] I. To «riell ; to perceive by the nose. So scented the grim feature, and upturn'd His nostrils wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far. J\fi/lm. i. To perfume ; or to imbue with odour goo'1 or bad. Balm, from a silver box distill'd around,... | |
| James Beresford - English wit and humor - 1806 - 384 pages
...agony, snuffing up, with your mind's /IOKC, the .well-stored canisters of a London shop : — Tes. " So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril...the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far !" Milt. 44. (S.) As a candidate — being thrown out by a casting vote ; — and this, when your party... | |
| James Beresford - English wit and humor - 1807 - 384 pages
...you, upon the faith of your solemn promise to put them into the post within an hour. 43. (S.) Testy. " So scented the grim feature, and upturn'd His nostril...the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far!" MILT. 44.'(S.) As a candidate—to be thrown out by a casting vote;—and this, when your party was... | |
| James Beresford - English wit and humor - 1807 - 360 pages
...you, upon the faith of your solemn promise to put them into the post within an hour. 43. (S.) Testy. " So scented the grim feature, and upturn'd His nostril...the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far !" MILT. 44. (S.) As a candidate — to be thrown out by a casting vote ; — and this, when your party... | |
| James Beresford - 1807 - 246 pages
...the well stored canisters of a London shop : — Testy. " So scanted the grim feature, andupturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far I" Milt. 44. (S.) As a candidate — to be thrown out by a casting vote ; — and this, when your party... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...With scent of living carcases design'd For death, the following day, in bloody fight: So scented die grim Feature, and upturn'd ^His nostril wide into...the murky air; Sagacious of his quarry from so far. Then both from out Hell-gates, into the waste Wide anarchy of Chans, damp and dark, Flew diverse; and... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...With scent of living carcases design d For death, tbe following day, in bloody fight: So scented tbe grim feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air ; Sagacious of his quarry from so far. Then both from out Hell-gates, into the waste Wide anarchy of Chaos, damp and dark, Flew diverse ;... | |
| 1810 - 482 pages
...design'd For death, the following day, in bloody fight ; So scented the grim feature, and npturu'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far. Tlien bulb from ontHell gates into the waste Wide anarchy of Chaos damp and dark ITew diverse, and... | |
| John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...LOST. 275—304. Against the day of battle, to a field, Where armies lie encamp'd, come flying, lur'd With scent of living carcasses design'd For death,...the murky air ; Sagacious of his quarry from so far. Then both from out Hell-gates, into the waste Wide anarchy of Chaos, damp and dark, Flew diverse ;... | |
| England - 1829 - 840 pages
...believe that these two wretches were each like a vulture— " So scented the Grim Feature, and uptutn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from afar" — that they dropped in at every sick-ro'om, and sounded the sitters by the dying bed, to know... | |
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