reeking

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Well, you take an Act of Parliament—and what is it but the finest plaster of the finest brains—wet, reeking wet from the press.

She cast her eyes around the room, reeking with the sweet sickliness of dead cigarettes.

THIRTYHOWARD VINCENT O'BRIEN

He mounted hastily and rode off, glad to be away from that reeking camp, and greatly elated with the success of the visit.

The fumes of the reeking cave mount to our heads, the floor is slippery with the lees and trodden vine-leaves.

The fields before her, which stretched to the hills, were reeking with damp.

They turn faith into pietism, sanctity into morality, and righteousness into a reeking prurience.

Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause.

JULIA WARD HOWELAURA E. RICHARDS

Then I stopped, turned my back to the reeking stone, and cursed the brutes that had treated me with such wanton cruelty.

The one room grew abominably dirty, reeking with the odors of cooking and of "non-poisonous" paint.

MCTEAGUEFRANK NORRIS

He saw that Pedro was reeking wet, with mouth open, and constantly stumbling, though he galloped on.

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