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From that hall, go down a flight of stone steps to another in the bowels of the earth, where the walls are reeking with mold, and the lamp darkens in the foul vapor.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson

The ascent is difficult, as the soft clay is deep and wet and the sides are reeking and covered also with soft yielding clay.

From Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills by Owen, Luella Agnes

I bring my microscope, and on a seed Clinging with abject fear, I see a Shape Whose wings are reeking with foul slime, whose eyes Glare with a demon lustre born of Pain.

From Stories in Verse by Abbey, Henry

They are reeking like bullocks at Smithfield down there.

From For the Term of His Natural Life by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop

Don't ride and race us about till we are ready to drop, and our wind is almost broken, and we are reeking with heat and rough usage.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various