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Updated: June 4, 2025
"Strip your old tub down to a flying balloon-jib and a marline-spike, and ballast the Ark with elephants until every inch of her reeked with ivory and peanuts, and she'd outfoot you on every leg, in a cyclone or a zephyr.
The old lady passed most of the day in the confinement of her dark room, which reeked of stable odors, rice powder and cosmetics; at night she had to accompany her daughter and her granddaughter on walks, and to cafes and theatres, on the hunt and capture of the kid, as it was put by the travelling salesman who suffered from his stomach, a fellow half humorist and half grouch.
This is the stuff our ancestors have breathed in tiny quantities for a hundred thousand generations! Of course it was essential to them! And to us! It was a part of their environment, so they had to have a use for it! And it controlled the population of certain molecules...." The air system gradually cleared away the smoke, but the Med Ship still reeked of wood-smoke smells.
On either side of us were men in evening dress and directly in front was a large woman, hatless and opera-cloaked, with diamonds in her ears and a rustle of silk at every point of her persons. The car reeked with perfume. The large woman wriggled uneasily. "George," she said, in a loud whisper, "why do they crowd these lifts in this disgusting way?
All became in an instant a scene of the most lively confusion. Volley after volley the troopers poured into the fleeing ruffians, and here and there men and horses dropped. The air reeked with the smell of gunpowder, and many riderless horses, snorting with fear and pain, galloped with flying reins up and down the road.
"I did't sbell eddythig, period," said Ellie defensively. "The coffee, the bacon come here a minute." She reeked of bacon, of coffee, of burned toast, but mostly of perfume. "Did you put on any fresh perfume this morning?" "Before breakfast? Dod't be ridiculous." "Not even a drop?" Phillip was turning very white. "Dot a drop." He shook his head. "Now, wait a minute. This must be all in my mind.
They gave each other tremendously bloody surnames, in the style of the Sagas names that reeked with gore and heroism. Hakon himself assumed the pleasing appellation "Skull-splitter," and his classmate Frithjof Ronning was dubbed Vargr-i-Veum, which means Wolf-in-the-Temple.
A small detachment of soldiers was advancing, at a leisurely pace, headed by a young officer whose arms blazed with gold and silver. No Hannibalian veterans these. As they came near, even Marcia could note the sleek, soft look of the men, and their listless, muscleless gait; while their leader's hair and person literally reeked with perfumes.
Where had stood a dense stretch of primordial woodland, now only the skeleton arms of the pines reached up towards the heavens as though appealing despairingly for the vengeance due to them. The day was gray. The air was still, so still. It reeked with the taint of burning. It reeked with something else.
He took the train to Mark Lane Station, and suddenly reminded by the inward monitor that he had eaten nothing for some hours, turned into one of the numerous old-fashioned coffee-shops near the quay. The place was crowded with ship hands and dock labourers, and reeked with that indescribable odour which is peculiar to the locality.
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