foetid

How to use foetid in a sentence

• The high society that could welcome its foetid pages was already ripe for the horrors of the Revolution.

  The War Upon Religion | Rev. Francis A. Cunningham

• On the fourth he was cast, and the discharge—partly inflammatory exudate, and partly a sanious foetid pus—liberated.

  Diseases of the Horse's Foot | Harry Caulton Reeks

• Hence a thoroughly decomposed tuber consists of a cork bag full of starch and foetid liquid.

  Disease in Plants | H. Marshall Ward

• It would seem almost impossible for the Christian graces to grow in such a foetid atmosphere.

  Valeria | William Henry Withrow

• A profuse, clammy, stinking sweat, or a most foetid diarrhoea wasted the miserable patients.

  A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2) | Charles Creighton