 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 páginas
...noun.] I. To «riell ; to perceive by the nose. So scented the grim feature, and upturn'd His nostrils wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far. J\fi/lm. i. To perfume ; or to imbue with odour goo'1 or bad. Balm, from a silver box distill'd around,... | |
 | James Beresford - 1806 - 384 páginas
...mind's /IOKC, the .well-stored canisters of a London shop : — Tes. " So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far !" Milt. 44. (S.) As a candidate — being thrown out by a casting vote ; — and this, when your party... | |
 | James Beresford - 1807 - 360 páginas
...solemn promise to put them into the post within an hour. 43. (S.) Testy. " So scented the grim feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far !" MILT. 44. (S.) As a candidate — to be thrown out by a casting vote ; — and this, when your party... | |
 | James Beresford - 1807 - 384 páginas
...solemn promise to put them into the post within an hour. 43. (S.) Testy. " So scented the grim feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far!" MILT. 44.'(S.) As a candidate—to be thrown out by a casting vote;—and this, when your party was... | |
 | James Beresford - 1807 - 246 páginas
...the well stored canisters of a London shop : — Testy. " So scanted the grim feature, andupturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far I" Milt. 44. (S.) As a candidate — to be thrown out by a casting vote ; — and this, when your party... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 páginas
...living carcases design'd For death, the following day, in bloody fight: So scented die grim Feature, and upturn'd ^His nostril wide into the murky air; Sagacious of his quarry from so far. Then both from out Hell-gates, into the waste Wide anarchy of Chans, damp and dark, Flew diverse; and... | |
 | 1810 - 482 páginas
...design'd For death, the following day, in bloody fight ; So scented the grim feature, and npturu'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far. Tlien bulb from ontHell gates into the waste Wide anarchy of Chaos damp and dark ITew diverse, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 páginas
...living carcasses design'd For death, the following day, in bloody fight : So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air ; Sagacious of his quarry from so far. Then both from out Hell-gates, into the waste Wide anarchy of Chaos, damp and dark, Flew diverse ;... | |
 | 1829 - 840 páginas
...believe that these two wretches were each like a vulture— " So scented the Grim Feature, and uptutn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from afar" — that they dropped in at every sick-ro'om, and sounded the sitters by the dying bed, to know... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 páginas
...living carcasses design'd For death, the following day, in bloody fight : So scented the grim feature, our grand parents, in that happy state, Favour'd of Heaven so highly, to fall off From Then both from out Hell-gates, into the waste • Wide anarchy of Chaos, damp and dark, [great) Flew... | |
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Of mortal change on earth. As when a flock Of ravenous fowl, though many a league remote, Against the day of battle, to a field, Where armies lie... 
