Stygian quagmire reeking with noisomeness to the inundated river-bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [How I Found Livingstone] Reference

We were all so famished that we took no heed of the noisomeness of the ration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference

It is but a skinning over the wound, whilst the core lies at the bottom, which will putrefy, and corrupt, and corrode, until it break out again with noisomeness, vexation, and danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers] Reference

It is a singular thing that no beautiful, useful, or even harmless species of bird or insect seems capable of acclimatizing itself as do those characterized by ugliness and noisomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference

I will not try to describe the noisomeness of that reeking hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance] Reference

This added to the general noisomeness, while it took away from my appetite.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People of the Abyss] Reference

After her long hardening to the stale noisomeness of London streets, the taint of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcella] Reference

Perhaps they were afraid of catching his distemper or of coming within smell of the noisomeness of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference

The prayer will still savour of that which lies in the heart; as the putrefaction of the inward parts give a noisomeness to the breath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.] Reference

However, it was at length agreed on all hands that it was owing to the noisomeness of the atmosphere, the smallpox at that time being very rife in the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.] Reference

Weekly i had to be confirmatory not to sublimate and as a foulness had to noisomeness a peppercorn for a few graft who had faded wigmaker terrifically of macrocheira.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

Thus (as our Saviour told them) making clean the outside of the platter, and smoothing the surface of their behaviour, while their inward parts were full of all noisomeness, filth, and abomination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.] Reference

Otherwise, they become the hereditary haunts of vermin and noisomeness, besides standing apart from the possibility of such improvements as are constantly introduced into the rest of man's contrivances and accommodations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni] Reference

We hear so much now-a-days of blood poisoning from the effluvia of sinks and sewers, that reading it, I wonder how a man inside the Stockade, and into whose nostrils came a breath of that noisomeness, escaped being carried off by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andersonville — Volume 2] Reference

Those which stood with their gardens toward the bay would have been tolerable, no doubt, if they could have kept their windows shut to the vile street before their doors; but the houses opposite could have had no escape from its stench and noisomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Journeys] Reference

I carried the sense of his fine decency with me when we drove away from his warerooms, and suddenly whirled round the corner of the street into the gipsy quarter, and made it my prophylactic against the human noisomeness which instantly beset our course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference

High Street, and, still more, the Salt-Market, now swarm with the lower orders to a degree which I never witnessed elsewhere; so that it is difficult to make one's way among the sullen and unclean crowd, and not at all pleasant to breathe in the noisomeness of the atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference

This they used in embalming of dead bodies, to preserve them from noisomeness and corruption: but a good name preserves a man's memory, and makes it grateful to posterity; which is a far greater benefit than that of a precious ointment, which serves only to keep a dead body from stench and rottenness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 04.] Reference

You would fancy any one’s spirit would die out under such an accumulation of darkness, noisomeness, and injustice, above all when he had not come there of his own free will, but under the cutlasses and bludgeons of the press-gang.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginibus Puerisque and other papers] Reference

Lily herself (newly washed, with "blue" in the water) was scarcely more white than the concrete floor of the kennel yard, and the puppies, Ruby and Remus, who had unaccountably developed a virulent form of mange, were immediately taken in hand by the all-accomplished tinker, and anointed with a mixture whose very noisomeness was to Patsey Crimmeen a sufficient guarantee of its efficacy, and was impressive even to the Master, fresh from much anxious study of veterinary lore.    From Wordnik.com.  [All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches] Reference

One of these sick alms-men had an ulcer, which was horrible to the sight, but the noisomeness of the stench was yet more insupportable; every one shunned the miserable creature, not enduring so much as to approach him; and Xavier once found a great repugnance in himself to attend him: but at the same time, he called to his remembrance a maxim of Ignatius, that we make no progress in virtue, but by vanquishing ourselves; and that the occasion of making a great sacrifice, was too precious to be lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16] Reference

Had he sucked into himself all the noisomeness of your heat? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance] Reference

“You have held me shut up three hundred and forty days in a frightful prison,” he said, “in the midst of filth, noisomeness, stench, and the utmost want of everything; you then bring me out before you, and lending an ear to my mortal enemies, you refuse to hear me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan] Reference

“digged him clear out, and he was as free from noisomeness,” the record says, “as when we first committed him to the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The North-West Passage] Reference

After his being freed from his twelve years 'imprisonment and upwards, for nonconformity, wherein he had time to furnish the world with sundry good books, etc., and by his patience, to move DR BARLOW, the then Bishop of LINCOLN, and other church-men, to pity his hard and unreasonable sufferings, so far as to stand very much his friends, in procuring his enlargement, or there perhaps he had died, by the noisomeness and ill usage of the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners]