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Field responded in joyful terms to the transformation of the “black evil-smelling substance.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018

My progress was also hampered by evil-smelling volcanic gases, which came up wherever there was a small fissure in the ground.

From Time Magazine Archive

These wriggly, but sacred, little animals were distantly related to the race of Great Ground Sloths, evil-smelling Megatheria, who persisted though they did not reproduce.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the battle's second day the Binh Xuyen fell back across the Chinese Arroyo, an evil-smelling canal on the southern edge of Saigon, blowing the bridges.

From Time Magazine Archive

We were also grateful that we had concluded the dirtiest of chores and had only gotten the evil-smelling swill on our shoes, stockings, feet and hands.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou




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