A smell of singed feathers and burning rubber filled the air.
A fur cap, soiled and singed by many camp-fires, half sheltered the shaggy tendrils of my uncut hair.
While I was viewing this performance, I remarked a smell like that of singed horn or leather, though his hand was not burnt.
Villikins barked, and sniffed, and howled in impatience, and after many vain attempts succeeded in dragging off the prize, though he singed his nose in doing it.