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If they had been told to clean themselves and their rooms a deep resentment would have set in and the house would have reeked of ill temper.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

For now it ought to have reeked of fish and oil; and piles of cod heads, instead of the cleanest of cold water, should have covered the rocks beneath.

From Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir

Of this slight superiority I should have reeked little in the daytime; nor, perhaps, counting Maignan as two, have allowed that it existed.

From A Gentleman of France by Weyman, Stanley John