The sentimentality of all the books Logan had once loved died when it came within smelling distance of the Hole.

But you must understand that a man could hunt ten lifetimes and never come in smelling distance of a planet half as good.

We lived on the West Side, within smelling distance of the world's largest tomato paste cannery.

No plants grew near it; everything within smelling distance was barren.

Only a few pieces came within smelling distance of the grotesqueness of conflict.

It starts within smelling distance of the Atlantic in the Rockaways.

The Society of the Simple is nearby, still within smelling distance.

'And soon we will be within smelling distance of ale houses, my thirsty friend.'

Nobody within smelling distance of salt water thinks it will save the industry.

But he's certainly never been within smelling distance of Indian idols' eyes.