Usage of "be a smell"

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Usage of be a smell in English

I must go, or there'll be a smell of burnin' supper-cakes. 
 Innocent : her fancy and his fact 

Even if she was taken by a hunter, there would be a smell of it. 
 Promise of the wolves: a novel 

There would be a smell on their clothes and then they would have to do a U-turn. 
 The Irish Times 

There began to be a smell. 
 Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders 

There was a smell of onions and rank seaweed in the air. 
 The Cathedral: A Novel 

There was a smell of something decayed and sour in the room. 
 The Bishop and Other Stories 

There is a smell of kerosene oil and onions in the air. 
 A Volunteer Poilu 

But in actual fact it is a smelling organ of phenomenal sensitivity. 
 The Complete Short Stories Vol. 1 

All the time there was a smell of lilac all round him. 
 The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare 

It was cold and damp, and there was a smell of autumn. 
 The Witch, and Other Stories 

There was a smell of hay and some other very sweet scent. 
 The Wife, and Other Stories 

There 's a smell of turf and burnin' brush comin' in the windy. 
 Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million 

I said there was a smell of the police about the place! 
 The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 3 

It was a smell that had often emanated from a zelandoni's fire. 
 The Plains of Passage 

There was a smell, but I really can't begin to describe it. 
 Underground 

So hard there 's a smell when they lose control of their bowels. 
 Haunted: a novel of stories 

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Meanings of be a smell in English