A sudden whiff of Kafka.

The ships at rest in the harbor began to rock uneasily, like horses tied in a barn, nervous at a sudden whiff of smoke.

Ishmael spoke again, the torch dipped, and a sudden whiff of blue flame shot up around the dais.

A draught from some door brought a sudden whiff of clean air into the place and made me raise my head.

The curator was a narrow-faced woman who sniffed constantly, as if catching a sudden whiff of something unpleasant.

Too much time living with the AIs, trying to think in their clean, nonhormonal ways, and this sudden whiff of real life left him unsettled.

She caught a sudden whiff of sour perspiration, as if he'd had three hours of sleep and thirty cups of coffee.

A sudden whiff of bread: they were tearing a loaf apart.

The sudden whiff of cold was obliterated by the warmth of her body, pressed against his from throat to knees.

And then there was a sudden whiff of a long-familiar odor, smelled a hundred times before.