Those that have been sordidly avaricious dwell in cells, and love swinish filth and such stenches as are exhaled from undigested food in the stomach.
Through these caverns nauseous and fetid stenches exhale, which good spirits flee from because they abominate them, but evil spirits seek for them because they delight in them.
As an after effect of this mode of interment, "What rotten stenches and contagious damps would strike up into thy nostrils!
XLIII Madeleine had forced herself to eat a light dinner, and a few minutes before eleven she drank a cup of strong coffee; but when she entered upon the sights and sounds and stenches of Worth Street she nearly fainted.
The air was dense with vile tobacco smoke, adding to the choice assortment of stenches imported from without and conferred by Time within.
While these their angels, in their attendance on man, are stationed near to confirmed and determined adulterers, they are made sensible of the direful stenches mentioned above, n.
All summer long the street-drains sent up their concentrated stenches and the undrained streets spread far and wide their promiscuous abominations.
Nor can that third which is gathered up be considered as taken out of harm's way, since all of it that can be regarded as manure is spread at once upon the neighboring fields, whence it sends back its stenches upon every wind that blows.
Benares is fouler in point of concentrated, pent-up muck, and there are local stenches in Peshawar which are stronger than the B.
Bombay cloaks her stenches with a veneer of assafoetida and tobacco; Calcutta is above pretence.
Many of the visitors were beginning to hold their noses in anticipation of the stenches which would come with these foreigners, and were ready to be shocked by the horrors of the steerage.
The stenches become unbearable, and many of the emigrants have to be driven down; for they prefer the bitterness and danger of the storm to the pestilential air below.
I certainly should not blame any one who preferred the stenches of Rivington Street to the sting of the mosquitoes on the New Jersey marshes.
The earthquake at Port Royal in 1692 produced "ill stenches and offensive smells.
Therefore from the brothels in the hells stenches pour forth that excite vomiting.
His clothing was such an assortment of rags slimy and greasy as one sometimes sees upon the top of a filled garbage barrel to add its horrors of odor of long unwashed humanity to the stenches from vegetable decay.
Our favourite walk was on the summit of the outer wall, where one could enjoy the cool evening breeze out of the dust and stenches for a while.
Like many other beautiful things in this world, Kwi-La-Shaï is best seen at a distance, for we found it on closer acquaintance worse even than Pekin in point of stenches and filth.
There they live, pasty women and weazened children, in the heavy air, polluted, as like as not, by the stenches from the creeks which are little else but open sewers.
The stenches which greet the visitor in the native quarters are no less odorous than those encountered in other cities of tropical America.
Gradually one by one they were hit, and soon their festering carcases, lying swollen in the sun, added a little more to the awful stenches which now surround us.
The stenchesare so bad from rotting carcases and obscene droppings that an already weakened stomach becomes so rebellious that it is hard to swallow any food at all.
It now becomes a matter of inquiry whether such things spring from eggs conveyed to the spot by means of air, or rain, or water oozing through the soil, or whether they spring from the damp and stenches themselves.
For our car was littered with sausage skins and bread crusts, and filth less pleasant to look at and stenches of many sorts abounded.
The stenches from the "horribly foul cellars" with their "infernal system of sewerage" must needs poison the tenants all the way up to the fifth story.
A laborer, who lived in the attic, had gone mad, poisoned by the stenches of the sewers in which he worked.
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