Crossword-Solution: SMELLING 8 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Here in close recess With Flowers, Garlands, and sweet-smelling Herbs Espoused _Eve_ deckt first her Nuptial Bed, And heav’nly Quires the Hymenaean sung, What day the genial Angel to our Sire Brought her in naked beauty more adorn’d, More lovely then _Pandora_, whom the Gods Endowd with all thir gifts, and O too like In sad event, when to the unwiser Son Of _Japhet_ brought by _Hermes_, she ensnar’d Mankind with her faire looks, to be aveng’d On him who had stole _Joves_ authentic fire.

She looked archly into the big, brown, mustached faces, smelling of spirits and tobacco, then she ran her tiny forefinger delicately over Joe’s bristly chin and said, “Here is my sweetheart.” The Bohemians roared with laughter, and Marie’s uncle hugged her until she cried, “Please don’t, Uncle Joe! You hurt me.” Each of Joe’s friends gave her a bag of candy, and she kissed them all around, though she did not like country candy very well.

She took Thea into the sitting-room, very warm and smelling of food, and brought her a plateful of little Christmas cakes, made according to old and hallowed formulae, and put them before her while she warmed her feet.

Outside both moon and stars shone brightly, and the night seemed peaceful and inviting after the close and ill-smelling kitchen.

The streets were narrow, tortuous, and mostly evil-smelling, with a mixture of stale fish and damp cellar odours.