One housemate drank rank-smelling wheatgrass for her breakfast. From Wordnik.com. [Rereading: Vineland by Thomas Pynchon] Reference
Conan muttered; a deluge of rank-smelling men in fur caps was descending on them. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Unconquered]
The entire plant is underground, except the large but ephemeral, rank-smelling flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests] Reference
After some searching, he discovered a makeshift tavern set up inside a rank-smelling tent. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
I was ordered to hunker down behind a rank-smelling tree trunk and cover a small clearing. From Wordnik.com. [Call to Treason]
It was rank-smelling but only slightly damp, and he piled it on the ledge in a kind of nest. From Wordnik.com. [Key Out of Time] Reference
It was in the heat of sultry afternoon, the air stirless, the water in the channel warm and rank-smelling. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Shaking, he clambered off the wagon as their relief walked up rank-smelling and yawning and belching to take their place. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
He felt good leaving the automobile, the jerry cans of rank-smelling whiskey, and the worries about the A.B.C. behind him. From Wordnik.com. [To The Bright and Shining Sun] Reference
Yes, truly a persuader of the world, because he is the mouthpiece of the people, whose earnest, mighty voice is making itself heard more and more irresistibly every day, to the utter discomfiture and overthrow of the hydra-headed avatars of the priestcraft and kingcraft and all the other mouldy and rank-smelling relics of the dark ages. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference
He hurried back to the ride, and sat down by the rank-smelling bracken where he had left his boots. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Garden] Reference
Near by me grew some rank-smelling waterside plant, and overhead the air seemed peopled with larks. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance] Reference
They raised the vessels, and over the antagonists 'bare bodies poured a thin, warm stream of some rank-smelling oil. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
On a bridge that had been cut in half, a search through rank-smelling debris revealed a mud-covered fridge which was still filled with food. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Though near nightfall, the rank-smelling weed-flowers glowed as if they would not close for intentness, and the waves of colour mixed with the waves of sound. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
The result of this experiment was a bright, clear amber-colored, rank-smelling liquor which I did not taste, but my suffering companion drank the whole potful and praised it. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Alaska] Reference
Many times already rank-smelling whiffs of air have blown upon us; they suggested the belief that behind the Peace Conference there lurked not merely what people feared, but something still worse or an immense political Panama. From Wordnik.com. [The Inside Story of the Peace Conference] Reference
The genus comprises a few species of South American annual or short-lived perennial, herbaceous, rank-smelling plants in which the many branches are spreading, procumbent, or feebly ascendent and commonly 2 to 6 feet in length, though under some conditions, particularly in the South and in California, they grow much longer. From Wordnik.com. [Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato] Reference
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