reeky

In this exhibition, his diaries are shown as works of art in their own right, allowing us a glimpse into his reeky creative mind.

Bidding the man a hasty good-bye, we passed out of the reeky, vile-smelling room past the screen, and into the open air, and though the ancient aroma of China was in it, it seemed as though we had got into the green fields and the fresh breezes were blowing over us, and we had escaped from a prison where we should have been stifled with a poison that would have killed us.

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

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.

The vividness, for example, with which Juliet describes the interior of a charnel-house partakes of a spirit of revenge, as if Shakespeare were retaliating, through her, upon an object horrible to himself:— “Or hide me nightly in a charnel-house, O’ercovered quite with dead men’s rattling bones, With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls.”