Royal wasn't going to be put off the scent that easily.

You put off the scent; but they are hot on it now.'

Lamb had not been put off the scent by Simmons' retreat.

He's a fool, as I've said, but he'll have to be put off the scent somehow."

The quarry had escaped once again; at least its two competitors for Conan had been put off the scent.

They slept that night at an inn on the road to Auvergne, to put off the scent any persons who might recognise them; then, following cross-country roads, they arrived after two days at a large hamlet, which they had seemed to have passed far to their left.