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Meanings of faint odour in English

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Usage of faint odour in English
1
He also detected the faint odour that was left in the cabin.
Nomads of the North: A Story of Romance and Adventure under the ...
2
They were associated in his mind with a faint odour of iodoform.
Of Human Bondage
3
A faint odour of the already mouldering year rose from the wet earth.
The Three Black Pennys: A Novel
4
There was a faint odour of cooking from the back premises.
The Vanished Messenger
5
A faint odour of the scent she used reached his nostrils.
With Edged Tools
6
A faint odour from her body is still between the sheets.
The eye of the leopard
7
One of them was a faint odour of musk and camphor.
The Moonstone
8
As for smells, I could detect nothing but a faint odour of surgery.
English passengers
9
A faint odour reached the children that was like the odour of burning leaves.
A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote)
10
Yes, there was a faint odour, almost as if of garlic in the room.
The Dream Doctor
11
Here and there he saw cooking-pots, and caught the faint odour of roasted flesh.
Round the World in Seven Days
12
The faint odour of wild lavender was mingled with the brackish scent of the sea.
Jeanne of the Marshes
13
She notices him like a faint odour; nothing utterly repulsive, but nothing too pleasant either.
Axiomatic
14
A faint odour of incense drifted from the sheets.
Altered carbon
15
I could smell a faint odour of something medical on him which I couldn't identify.
Never let me go
16
The innumerable pale flowers gave out a faint odour, and coloured the sides of the highway.
The Life of the Fields
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