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evil-smelling







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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

Despite this evil-smelling State record Congress was determined to clamp a similar system down on all Federal Reserve member banks, make it optional with nonmember State banks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ever since her birth in an evil-smelling slum in the Adriatic port of Ancona, life had been hard for Palmira Carloni.

From Time Magazine Archive

They halted, cowering on the evil-smelling ground; but they saw nothing in the gloomy evening sky above, and soon the menace passed, high overhead, going maybe on some swift errand from Barad-dûr.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien




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