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"Velly special chop!" He passed from bunk to bunk, and presently came to a comatose Chinaman from whose limp hand, which hung down upon the floor, the pipe had dropped. This pipe Ah-Fang-Fu took from the smoker's fingers and returning to the box upon which the tin lamp was standing began calmly to load it. "Good heavens!" muttered Stuart "he is short of pipes! Pah! how the place reeks!"
This `boxing the compass' business, though, brought me to loggerheads with that brute `Ugly' somehow or other, strangely enough. I don't know how it was, but from the moment, I believe, I first cast eyes on his singularly unprepossessing face, Moses Reeks had been my special antipathy!
There Chinese swarm in the dirty lanes; there the whole place reeks of onions and tobacco and spirits from the public-houses; there are vile gambling hells and opium dens; and there paper lanterns on fishing rods hang outside the tea-houses. Then we can take a look at 'Little Italy, a purely Italian town in the midst of the New York of the Americans.
Truly, the Sorrentine market contains a feast of colour to satisfy the craving of an artist! At vintage time the whole Piano di Sorrento reeks with the vinous scent of the spilt juice, that is carelessly thrown on to the stone-paved roads by the jolting of the country carts which bring in the great wooden tubs, so that the very streets seem to run with the crimson ooze.
You're not coming in?" he broke off to say to the young physician, whom Lize had shamed into returning to the cabin. "I suppose I'll have to," he protested, weakly. "I don't see the need of it. The whole place reeks of the poison, and you might carry it away with you. Unless you insist on coming in, and are sure you can prevent further contagion, I shall oppose your entrance.
The King had already dismounted from his horse, and hastened towards his friend, carrying a portfolio in his hand. "Thomas," he said without any preface, "take and read! He has answered me! Who? Luther, of course! He the man whose mind reeks like carrion, and whose practices are damnable has answered my book, The Babylonish Captivity.
Some authorities would ascribe a far greater antiquity to this type, but, I venture to think, on the strength of doubtful evidence. The notorious Galley Hill skeleton, for instance, found more or less intact in an Early Pleistocene bed in which the truly contemporary animals are represented by the merest battered remnants, to my mind reeks of modernity.
Then there is the spider an ugly creature, but I suppose God likes it can anything be meaner than that web which naturalists extol as such a marvel of Providential ingenuity? Ingenuity! The word reeks with lying.
"Don't yer try on that yere bloomin' game agin, you Reeks, I tell yer, my joker, or else yer 'ad better git yer coffin ready afore yer comes aboard this ship. Lor'! W'y, if the `Jaunty' or `Jimmy the One' knowed it, yer'd be strung up at the yard-arm this very minnit!"
It was a fashion which had come to be almost a habit with her recently. Curious that it should express a kind of resignation! Nona began reading at once. "The poem is called 'At the Last' and is by George Sterling, a Californian, I believe. "Now steel-hoofed War is loosened on the world, With rapine and destruction, as the smoke From ashen farm and city soils the sky. Earth reeks.
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