smelt

How To Use smelt In A Sentence

• I could perceive no trace of a metallic vein, so thoroughly had it been worked out, but scattered over the hillside with schist, talcose slate, and fragments of quartz, was a great deal of scoriae, showing that metal of some kind had been excavated, and that the smelting had been done on the spot. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
• They wor wed at Midsummer, an Sydney kept his word abaat smookin -- he started chewin, an suckin owd empty pipes, but it worn't like smookin, an whenivver he smelt th 'reek ov a cigar it fair set him longin, but like a man owt to do, he didn't braik his promise. Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect
• The use of steam-driven bellows in blast furnaces helped ironmakers switch over from charcoal (limited in quantity) to coke, which is made from coal, in the smelting of pig iron.
• No doubt Mr Mutley is well aquatinted with the way dogs mate, having mounted the lady dog the chap dog turns around and then they commence to perform the filthy act facing away from each other, having smelt pedigree chum on a dogs breath I cant say that I blame them. Double Jeopardy
• When he died in June from cancer, investigators from Liquidators Cork Gulley were called in and soon smelt a rat.
• And for the first time in his career, when he smelt burning wood pulp and looked down at the line of messenger boys with a ready-made frown and caught the eyes of Mickey, the "littlest," smiling impudently at him, Skinner's Dress Suit
• She _smelt_, so to say, that there was something underneath the offer which was not to her advantage; but then the thought of thirty crowns a month, of all those coins chinking in her apron, falling to her, as it were, from the skies, without her doing anything for it, filled her with covetousness. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories
• The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats.
• And hedgehogs released into areas of excellent habitat hightailed it out of there if they smelt badger. Times, Sunday Times
• The room smelt strongly of polish.