peat reek

The particulars of this case, in fact, reek with the stench of crony capitalism.

A moment later there was Something nearly at his left elbow, and he smelt again the nameless, fœtid reek.

He had nearly bitten his swollen tongue in two falling over an unseen peat-cutting, and blood-flecked foam gathered on his lips.

It must be carefully composted with peat, and turned over several times before being used.

It is sometimes mixed with lime or gypsum, and dried with heat, and sometimes with animal charcoal or peat charcoal.

Dry peat of good quality contains about one per cent of nitrogen, and a quantity of ash varying from five to twenty per cent.