foetor
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Perfume from battle-fields rising, up from the foetor arising.
From Leaves of Grass by Whitman, Walt
Exitque de illo per totum ignis obscuratus fumo, et foetor, tantus, quòd per magnum spatium viæ pessimam vallem infectat.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Hakluyt, Richard
Gradually, passenger after passenger produced cigars; the aroma filled the coach, and the fragrance of the weed triumphed over the foetor of the polecat.
From Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Murray, Henry A.
Perfume from battlefields rising, up from the foetor arising.
From The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman by Whitman, Walt
The windows are tight-shut and slimy-wet With a night's foetor.
From The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke by Brooke, Rupert
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