Uses "foetid," spelling from the wrong branch of English, and I don't know why he lets this fog into the text. From Wordnik.com. [dbqp: visualizing poetics] Reference
He stepped outside the hovel into the foetid alleyway. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Eagle]
I sat with my eyes closed against the foetid turbulence. From Wordnik.com. [Northlight]
April 24th, 2006 fic: The spaceman's idylls tell a foetid tale. From Wordnik.com. [April 24th, 2006] Reference
It may or may not be extremely foetid, and often it is mingled with blood. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
For the moment, though, they can live in their sequestered, foetid little worlds. From Wordnik.com. [A reckoning to come] Reference
Blood flowed, sticky and foetid, splashing on blades and arms and making them gag. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortress of the Pearl]
The pus was foetid, but no appreciable quantity of intestinal contents was detected in it. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
Thou woundest me with thy cruel words, paining me with the pain of opening a foetid tumour. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
The air inside the blocked-up barracks was foetid and the few wicks still alight were guttering. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Battle]
Night-soil had been thrown in here, or left by other prisoners, and each breath he took was foetid. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Honour]
Walcott is a prime contender to help the team emerge from the foetid swamp of their recent displays. From Wordnik.com. [Still glad you left Theo Walcott behind then Mr Capello?] Reference
"If we fail, then death is preferable to life in this foetid pit, chained up and treated like dogs.". From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
A listless breeze brought with it the foetid stench of the mangrove swamps but always from their left. From Wordnik.com. [The Ninja]
As the eye became accustomed to the foetid duskiness of the prison, a strange picture presented itself. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
It was years since she had breathed in a similar foetid odour, only then she had not really noticed it. From Wordnik.com. [faceless]
But there was one cheering aspect to this foetid dampness; mushroom season arrived with a phenomenal surplus. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
The foetid air of the place, the yammer of voices, the noise of the rain outside, all combined to dull her senses. From Wordnik.com. [HOTHOUSE]
On the fourth he was cast, and the discharge -- partly inflammatory exudate, and partly a sanious foetid pus -- liberated. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
This glimpse of sunlight — sparkling at the entrance of the foetid and stifling prison — seemed to mock their miseries. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
He remembered the foetid barracks where two men shared a cot, the vicious beatings, the unprincipled struggle just to stay alive. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Eagle]
If death does not occur, foetid, hemorrhagic diarrhoea sets in, accompanied by subcutaneous oedema in the ventral part of the body. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
Its name may, with some, prevent its being planted in the pleasure garden, but its foetid odour is not perceptible unless sought for. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
There I held my breath and scurried through the foetid air and the flies, slowing again when I came to tables heaped high with fruit. From Wordnik.com. [O Jerusalem]
Here we were to pass the night, or rather the remainder of it, the mail going on to Nashville, and taking our foetid bodkin on with it. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
'On removing the hoof, under the sole there appeared a large quantity of very foetid pus; the laminæ were very much inflamed in patches. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
I had been for some time aware that it emitted an unpleasant, foetid odour; as it neared my face it became so intense as to be unbearable. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Barahout an extremely disgusting and foetid smell, and then news is brought to us of the death of a great man of the chiefs of the infidels. '. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
Once such a sound stopped abruptly and close at hand; a faint foetid odour permeated from without, and he felt instinctively that the enemy was at the gate. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
When he recovered from his swoon, (in which he had lain for many hours) he felt numbed with cold, sick with the foetid atmosphere of the place, and faint with hunger. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
The discharge continually oozing from these keeps the heel constantly wet with a thick purulent discharge, which is nearly always blood-stained, and very often foetid. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
Soon a dull, sluggish sound was heard, like the trickling of muddy water; and a foetid odor entered the nostrils, similar to the loathsome exhalations of a stagnant pool. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
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