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Growing up, Ikoyi had reeked of gentility, a faraway gentility that she could not touch: the people who lived in Ikoyi had faces free of pimples and drivers designated “the childrens driver.”

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Everything to do with the Domineys for the last fifteen years had reeked of poverty.

From The Great Impersonation by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

The two kept house together; the same big house that had reeked with so much feminine life, and about which the odours of perfumes and powders still seemed to linger.

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel

Her little airy figure was in strange contrast with these gloomy passages, these stones that had reeked with blood and smoke.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various

And the odour of bitter almonds with which the place had reeked was no longer very strong.

From The Brightener by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)