Careful Words

nostril (n.)

  The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.

So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd

His nostril wide into the murky air,

Sagacious of his quarry from so far.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book x. Line 279.