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1  All the uses and scents of the brewery might have evaporated with its last reek of smoke.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
2  He had a closet in his room, fitted up for the purpose, which smelt of the scented soap like a perfumer's shop.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
3  As I drew her down into her chair, I was conscious of a scent that I knew, and turning, saw my guardian in the room.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIX
4  Eight o'clock had struck before I got into the air, that was scented, not disagreeably, by the chips and shavings of the long-shore boat-builders, and mast, oar, and block makers.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
5  And Joe got in beside me, and we drove away together into the country, where the rich summer growth was already on the trees and on the grass, and sweet summer scents filled all the air.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LVII
6  My guardian was in his room, washing his hands with his scented soap, when I went into the office from Walworth; and he called me to him, and gave me the invitation for myself and friends which Wemmick had prepared me to receive.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
7  There were some people slinking about as usual when we passed out into the street, who were evidently anxious to speak with him; but there was something so conclusive in the halo of scented soap which encircled his presence, that they gave it up for that day.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVI
8  I had known him the moment I saw him looking over the settle, and now that I stood confronting him with his hand upon my shoulder, I checked off again in detail his large head, his dark complexion, his deep-set eyes, his bushy black eyebrows, his large watch-chain, his strong black dots of beard and whisker, and even the smell of scented soap on his great hand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII