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Meanings of right scent in English

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Usage of right scent in English
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Then she searched the many bottles of perfume for the right scent.
Swan Song
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Beyond any possibility of doubt he was on the right scent this time.
Bob Hampton of Placer
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You may be on the right scent or you may not, but take warning.
The Master Detective: Being Some Further Investigations of Chris...
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He put me at once on the right scent.
A Strange Story — Volume 05
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And yet, may be, "The Pall Mall Gazette" was on the right scent.
On The Art of Reading
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Still, we are on the right scent-so ,forwardthen!
Monsieur Lecoq, v. 1
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They ought to apply to the Archbishop; he would soon put them on the right scent.
The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01
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It was Bruce who found the right scent.
Dogsbody
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When I catch him with that woman I've got the right scent of the whole thing.
The Midnight Passenger : A Novel
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We'd better turn towards the town to put them off the right scent, said Eric again.
Eric; Or, Little by Little
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By applying the right scent you can get the girls even if you are a frog.
The Irish Times
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He was once more on the right scent; and again started off, nose down, over the prairie.
The Boy Hunters
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The honour and profit of putting the police on the right scent were claimed by Mrs. Thompson.
A Book of Remarkable Criminals
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Go back at the very moment when it had become plain that I was on the right scent?
Erewhon; Or, Over the Range
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The woman had driven fifty miles on four different occasions to get just the right scent for her wedding night.
Made of honor
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When these fellows are at fault they come to me, and I manage to put them on the right scent.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
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