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A reeky house and a girnin' wife, will lead a man a fashious life.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop

He turned, surprised, unconsciously placing himself between her and the reeky water.

From The Vertical City by Fannie Hurst

For such things be, Yea, and the lowest reach of reeky Hell Is but made possible By forta'en breath of Heaven's austerest clime.

From New Poems by Francis Thompson

Though all was gone, save reeky bone, a green and grisly heap, With scarce a trace of fleshly face, strange posture did it keep.

From Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth

Hence is a road that led them a-down to the Tartarean streams, Where Acheron's whirlpool impetuous, into the reeky Deep of Cokytos disgorgeth, with muddy burden.

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges




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