Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "I could tell they were old by the smell of them. The newest ones had the delicate scent of aged paper, while the oldest ones stank unmistakably of very old, very dead animal skin."

• The dead eat hope. We had none to give them, so they were pretty emaciated by the end.
• The days of very old were not very good
• I'll never be the one to force my parents into an "old age" home
• old books can tell more than one story
• The Library Book
• The house went one way, I ran another, and I could SWEAR I heard the old bat laughing through the walls
• We were all waiting to hear those words (and no one ever said them)
• Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat
• The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well
• I could not hear the echo of my steps as I descended nor the sounds of animals, for they were hiding
• One year old
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• Which God was cooler, the one from the Old Testament or the one from the New Testament?
• Necronomicon: Of Ye Old Ones And Their Spawn
• Three Golden-Tongued Knights, Whom No One Could Refuse Whatsoever They Might Ask
• I don't think we're old enough to know if we're alcoholics at our age
• Next time one of those tough kids asks you to smoke pot, tell them "MY GRASS IS FOR MOWING"
• Great Old Ones
• What to do if your friends think you are an agent of the Old Ones
• and then, one morning, I realised I had been an adult for a while
• The Very Old Man
• Old Ones
• The Man Felt an Iron Hand Grasp Him by the Hair, at the Nape. Not One Hand, a Hundred Hands Seized Him, Each by the Hair, and Tore Him Head to Foot, the Way You Tear Up a Sheet of Paper, Into Hundreds of Little Pieces
• Old soldiers never die. Young ones do.
• This castle looks a lot like the old one
• The Ghost of the Old House of Commons, to the New One, appointed to meet at Oxford
• No one can know what you want unless you tell them
• Trivial Pursuit, the battle of the sexes, and one very smart little cookie
• Walking down a very desolate road with only one person on your mind
• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead
• Next time one of those tough kids asks you to cultivate bioethanol, tell them "MY CORN IS FOR EATING"
• I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
• 4 out of 5 Great Old Ones approve
• The Old Ones
• Surrounded by people, I forget that I am one of them
• Amakuni once drew an old sword of his from a box, suddenly overjoyed by something he had cast aside.
• A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
• Don't clap too loudly; it's a very old world.
• I could tell by all of her dead house plants
• You were the one beam of light in my life; I responded by putting on sunglasses.
• How a 25-year-old can contract diaper rash in one fun night
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• This place like an old jacket, made alien by time.
• How Solemn as One by One
• I'm not one to be had for the wanting, Sir
• The city. So many lights you can actually pretend one of them's shining on you.
• Happiness is difficult to come by when one is constantly followed by Frisbees
• Pour one out for your dead homies
• When they come they'll eat the fat ones first
• The most dangerous vampires were the ones who were bad at math
• every secret thing was made by some one
• Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one
• Old chestnut: The oldest chestnut
• For every rich man who tries to leave this world for a better one with his fancy tomb surrounded by mourners, there are many more who perish alone in the cold, forgotten by all but God.
• Keeping beer cold in the Old West
• I could have been one of a two
• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• if I could play god there'd be one less child abuser
• If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
• The stories I could tell you, if you only were here to hear
• the dexterity of one who had smoked for years
• What's this? - A dead one of these.
• She had never kissed someone so old.
• Old man who lived by the crick
• my father, the crooked old animal, wounded, fur scruffy; keeps on giving
• The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them
• One by one we threw our eyes into the sea
• One sock on (or: Getting caught fooling around by the cops)
• I know them by the trucks they drive, the names they call each other, the tattoos on hot, shirtless days, the music they blast after lunch, to get through the rest of the day.
• E2 is like getting old, having friends die, and running into them on the street
• old chestnut: age puzzles
• How does one love the dead?
• How one man could control the Senate
• one by one their blades will grind to a halt and stand still like a white forest.
• One way to skin a cat(fish)
• if tables could express gratitude, this one did
• Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
• early one mornin while makin the rounds
• Death arrived shortly thereafter, but we were both far too busy to bother with one another just yet
• And I could hear him call to me, as if the world went quiet for that one distinct moment
• They came together so as to form one whole
• No One Ever Listens Do They, 'Lyssa
• They grow up. No one told me.
• As if either one of us were happy
• X-Men: Age of Apocalypse One Shot
• If you had to invent a language with no more than one hundred words
• One, Two, Three... Infinity
• The Message of King Sakis and the Legend of the Twelve Dreams He Had in One Night
• one dead eye (user)
• Twelve dreams I had in one night
• Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate, One Second before Awakening
• To Old Age
• Defeating Junkbuster by using one server for all images
• old stuffed animals
• SA-8 Gecko (and getting shot down by one)
• Old Paper New Woman (user)
• only by consuming pieces of one another can beings such as we exist
• By One Minute
• Old book smell
• drum rudiments which sound like they were named by a neural net
• Solving a maze
• Too bad they don't make one for your heart...
• How to tell whether a figure can be drawn in one stroke
• The one guy who went to Australia instead of Austria by mistake
• A Quick One (While He's Away)
• It's not that we're more attractive in the darkness or that one of us may be drunk
• though they could speak and had beautiful voices
• We're one, but we're not the same
• C'Etait Toi (You Were the One)
• It takes the profit from 22 towels to pay for one package of copier paper
• After this, everything got louder and no one could be heard
• One Node to Rule Them All
• The Abridged Edition: She was to one side, he was to the other, an untested bridge between them
• If we were all part of one big television show, seriously, you'd be a poorly written character
• One day we realized we were going to need a bigger car
• if you buy into the wizard's bullshit, soon you're all standing waist-deep in things you didn't even know could exist and no one has any clue how to stop him
• One must trust in the law, and keep within the heart the knowledge that the law of this world is the same right and just law that governed us when we were merely stars.
• No one has ever died because they DIDN'T have a toothpick
• Your home probably smells like an old sock. No thanks
• Usually, if you've seen one bald man in a robe, you've seen 'em all, but most of them aren't burning alive from the inside out
• We Were the Sun's Chosen Ones
• Telling real pearls from fake ones
• Old Age
• It checked every flower twice, the dead ones too
• The ocean will one day give up its dead
• A boy, a girl, a big fat dead old lady
• Old chestnut: divisible by two through 10
• Not very sterile, but better than dead
• One by One
• Old age home
• You had two lovers, and eventually the one with the most chips won.
• To be hoist by one's own petard
• What good is an old dead tree?
• Sheep and Old Age.
• All the things she had at one point wanted to be
• My first and last attempt at a one night stand was raided by the police
• It never hurts to give thanks to the broken ones you had to use to build your ladder.
• The Wild Colonials
• Two old ladies by the bus stop
• I fixed my body image issues by looking at people as if they were dogs
• A Pretty Mess By This One Band
• New Skin for the Old Ceremony
• The erotic tales of 'old McMurty': that weird kid's favourite dead dog
• Old Age Assistance
• dying of old age
• Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
• On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death, On Breathing
• On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death, On Breathing 2
• On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death, On Breathing 3
• One if by land, two if by sea
• Does your soul cast about like an old paper bag?
• The lonely ones will find each other by the heat of their bodies
• Pragmatism by William James: Lecture IV: The One and the Many
• The streets are old and dirty and old and I like them
• The smell of old money in new hands
• watching headlights roll by, maybe you noticed one, swept by a little too slow
• The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
• Faust, Part One, as written by Dr. Seuss
• No one has ever been bitten to death by a poisonous snake in a ball pit
• The woman had a carnivorous frenzy which could only be soothed by the succulent sirloin
• The Punk Meets the Godfather, Part One: Do My Converse look okay? And other preconceptions by a hippie kid
• War is a game played by old men with other people's sons
• The Lovecraftian compulsion to keep noding even as one is being devoured by EDB
• Old men never die, they just spout poetry
• One child's desperate fight for survival by judy westwater
• When your imaginary life is interrupted unapologetically by your real one
• The Old Gray Goose Is Dead
• There's more than one way to skin a cat
• People are impossible. I should know; I'm one of them.
• "By their very nature, negatives ought to be more abstract {than positives}."
• GpBCT: proof that Bob wins on a countable union of sets if he's guaranteed a win on each one of them
• Things one should do while naked
• My Snuffleupagus smells like CK One. This does not disturb me.
• Ack! That person doesn't fit in a category! Quick, find one for them!
• And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music
• We left our dead where they lay and the sand preserved them

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