reeky

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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 Ainsworth, William Harrison

A foe had better brave the deil, Within his reeky cell, Than our thistle's purple bonnet, Or bonny heather-bell.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

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 Ellis, William Hodgson

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 Bridges, Robert

Stratford Marlowe and I worked throughout the night, troubled by reeky candles, rain and chill.

From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander