reeky
Example Sentences
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A reeky house and a girnin' wife, will lead a man a fashious life.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
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
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
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
This sail and the reeky smokestack beyond, and the great near billows that emerged from time to time out of the gray obscurity—these seemed to save the universe from chaos.
From Duffels by Eggleston, Edward