Ocupation: Novelist
Life: July 18, 1811 - December 24, 1863
Birthday: July 18
Death: December 24
Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.
source: William Makepeace Thackeray (1911). “The Fitz-Boodle papers, and other sketches”
topic: Food, Smell, Hot, Lulls, Drowsy, Fiery, Truffles