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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

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

“The yin wi’ the reeky lum and the view o’ chimbley-pots frae the wundy?”

From Philosopher Jack by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

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

He packed his trappings Academical, And sailed to join the Congress Chemical, Which met that year in London reeky, To study “la chimie appliquée.”

From Wayside Weeds by William Hodgson Ellis




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