SMELLS in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 The blood smell from my hands means nothing now with all that scent in the water.
2 Usually when he smelled the land breeze he woke up and dressed to go and wake the boy.
3 Now he speeded up as he smelled the fresher scent and his blue dorsal fin cut the water.
4 There was no part of the hook that a great fish could feel which was not sweet smelling and good tasting.
5 He smelled the tar and oakum of the deck as he slept and he smelled the smell of Africa that the land breeze brought at morning.
6 He smelled the tar and oakum of the deck as he slept and he smelled the smell of Africa that the land breeze brought at morning.
7 The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean.
8 They were hateful sharks, bad smelling, scavengers as well as killers, and when they were hungry they would bite at an oar or the rudder of a boat.
9 It was these sharks that would cut the turtles' legs and flippers off when the turtles were asleep on the surface, and they would hit a man in the water, if they were hungry, even if the man had no smell of fish blood nor of fish slime on him.
10 When the wind was in the east a smell came across the harbour from the shark factory; but today there was only the faint edge of the odour because the wind had backed into the north and then dropped off and it was pleasant and sunny on the Terrace.
11 But tonight the smell of the land breeze came very early and he knew it was too early in his dream and went on dreaming to see the white peaks of the Islands rising from the sea and then he dreamed of the different harbours and roadsteads of the Canary Islands.