Question

Which sentences in this excerpt from "A Dissertation Upon a Roast Pig" by Charles Lamb use sensory details?

Mankind, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. was obliging enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing or biting it from the living animal, just as they do in Abyssinia to this day. This period is not obscurely hinted at by their great Confucius in the second chapter of his Mundane Mutations, where he designates a kind of golden age by the term Cho-fang, literally the Cooks' holiday.

Answer 1

This part of the excerpt uses sensory detail: "ate their meat raw, clawing or biting it from the living animal"

Answer 2

1.While he was thinking what he should say to his father, and wringing his hands over the smoking remnants of one of those untimely sufferers, an odour assailed his nostrils, unlike any scent which he had before experienced.

2.Some of the crumbs of the scorched skin had come away with his fingers, and for the first time in his life (in the world's life indeed, for before him no man had known it) he tasted—crackling! Again he felt and fumbled at the pig.

3.A premonitory moistening at the same time overflowed his nether lip.

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