Significados de scent out en inglés

They scent out by instinct a chance of taking advantage of people.

They divine purses in pockets, they scent out watches in fobs.

Sniff the scent out of a wild flower, and-perhaps-throwitaway?

A pretty hound to scent out master's lost goods.

All the sunlight seemed to have gone out of the world, all the scent out of the roses.

I could think of only one thing that might take the scent out of his quivering, eager snout.

A heavy dew fell, and it drenched the last vestige of her mate's scent out of the sand.

I didn't know how he was doing it, but somehow Wally was keeping his scent out of the air.

They are jackals, who scent out a timid pause or an unsuspecting silence which the lion tongue straightway destroys.

You know Blondeau, he has a very pointed and very malicious nose, and he delights to scent out the absent.

I half believe-onlythat he's too young-thathe is some hound over here trying to scent out the whole thing.

When the peasantry go to gather truffles, they take a pig with them to scent out the spot where they grow.

If some great plot were hatching, if some great upheaval were at hand, why might not he scent out something beforehand?

Moreover, he felt that his slaying of the horse secretly-andthey were bound to scent out and read that-wouldnot improve matters.

And here was Mother Sub-Prioress, ferret-faced and peering; and here Sister Mary Rebecca, long-nosed, flat-footed, eager to scent out and denounce wrong doing.

The weather had rinsed her scent out of the truck, but he could close his eyes and breathe it in through his imagination.