The smell of frying meat and coffee thickened the air.

The smell of death and flame and smoky danger thickened the air.

One or two nauseous individuals had been received into the lobby of the Hotel while the smell of fricasseed flesh thickened the good desert air of the town.

The smell of blood thickened the air.

The smell of bumed wood thickened the air.

The smell of blood thickened.

The smell of smoke thickened.

And still the smell of burning rubber on trash yankee wheels thickens the air...

It was gloomy outside, and she switched on all the lights, but the rooms seemed to resist illumination, as though the smell of spoiled food, which was pungent, was thickening the air.

To his surprise, the smell of worry coming from the woman thickened.