1 When Mrs. Shimerda opened the bag and stirred the contents with her hand, it gave out a salty, earthy smell, very pungent, even among the other odours of that cave.
2 And along with the thickening smoke they began to notice another circumstance, a strange, pungent odor.
3 It collected the stories of graft and misery from the daily press, and made a little pungent paragraphs out of them.
4 Round the house he hurried, led by a pungent smell of burned sugar, and Mr. Scott strolled after him, with a queer look on his face.
5 The sarcasm that had repelled, the harshness that had startled me once, were only like keen condiments in a choice dish: their presence was pungent, but their absence would be felt as comparatively insipid.
6 A formidable array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the chemical work which was so dear to him.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY 7 The door closed once more, and the pungent reek of a strong cigar was borne to our nostrils.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON 8 On the stairs a moist pungent odour of perfumes saluted his nose: evidently Miss Delacour had come while he was out in O'Neill's.
9 The moist pungent perfume lay all the way up to Mr. Alleyne's room.
10 The sensation was like being touched in the marrow with some pungent and searching acid, it set my very teeth on edge.
11 It was a little different, more pungent, and one felt that this was where it originated.