The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Prufrock and Other Observations,'Preludes', pt.1.

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil† Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wearsman'ssmudgeand sharesman'ssmell: thesoil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'God's Grandeur'.

All creatures give out a smell when aroused, it seems; certainly humans do.

-Lees-Milne,James
Ancient as the Hills: Diaries,1973^1974 (1997).

I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

-Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
  Poems,'Sudden Light'.

McLuhan put a telescope to his ear; What a lovely smell, he said, we have here.

-Smith, AJ M
  Poems,'TheTaste of Space'.When McLuhan first heard this couplet, his response was 'Synaesthesia!'

Ishould haveno objectiontothismethod, butthat Ithink it must smell too strong of the lamp.

-Sterne, Laurence
^67  Toby.Tristram Shandy, bk.1, ch.23.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing inittositdownonor to eat: it was a hobbit-hole,and that means comfort.

-Tolkien,J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel)
  The Hobbit, ch.1.

For a long time we dreamed of a real leather ball, and at last my brother had one for his birthday. The feel of the leather, the stitching round it, the faint gold letters stamped upon it, the touch of the seam, the smell of it, all affected me so deeply that I still have that ache of beauty when I hold a cricket ball.

-Uttley, Alison
  Carts and Candlesticks.