Air Quote by John Milton

“He flicked through the yellowed rough-cut pages and breathed its musty smell. It filled him with a strange excitement, as if he'd caught a…

— Joan London

“An astonishing, curdled smell that had subtle layers of foulness for the nose to explore.”

— Andrew Michael Hurley

“He began to see a kind of beauty in the strangeness of the field, too. It was quite different from what he had been…

— Walter Tevis

“His entire aspect was menacing, starting with his chilling eyes and the pronounced bone structure of his face. He was tall and lean, but…

— Sandra Brown

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried…

— Edith Wharton

He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were…

— Jojo Moyes

“He also could feel it in his nostrils like an impalpable soot; the emanations of the millions about them, packed away at night in…

— Irvin S. Cobb

He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage…

— Annie Proulx

“smeared with grime. His attention was on the rise and fall of the breakers and his uncovered hands were clasped tightly at his back.…

— Claudy Conn

He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon…

— Virginia Woolf

“I stooped under the rude lintel, and there he sat upon a stone outside, his gray eyes dancing with amusement as they fell upon…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Face like the moon, pale and somehow wavering. I could get the gist of his features, but none of it stuck in my mind…

— N.K. Jemisin