Foetor

Nope, this is a day you wish he'd written a long, whiny letter to his aunts about those bastard Syrians next door, or maybe just spent the day inventing new spellings for "foetor" or patronizingly explaining Nietzsche to Frank Belknap Long. ❋ Princeofcairo (2007)

Of greatest concern to me was a certain unmistakable foetor—that same dusty, sepulchral stench from my dream! ❋ Andrew Edwards (2011)

That is before we even begin to contemplate how we might view the character of this individual, who permanently carries with him the foetor of the dung heap. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Anyone can imitate him, in mediocre fashion, by tossing around words like "glabrous" and "foetor." ❋ Unknown (2007)

Exitque de illo per totum ignis obscuratus fumo, et foetor, tantus, quòd per magnum spatium viæ pessimam vallem infectat. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Exitque de illo per totum ignis obscuratus fumo, et foetor, tantus, qu騞 per magnum spatium vi� pessimam vallem infectat. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Contributing to this foetor was the smell emanating from the table, whose surface was littered with the vestiges of various meals—the decaying fragments of a catfish; the partially gnawed disjecta membra of a chicken; a beef bone to which waxy gobbets of congealed fat continued to cling. ❋ Harold Schechter (1999)

As they approached, cautious, ready for anything, Joanna was conscious of the nauseating foetor of decay that hung in the raw air. ❋ Hambly, Barbara (1988)

The foetor of decay hung over the town, clogging her throat like putrid dust. ❋ Hambly, Barbara (1988)

The terror of what he had seen there now exploded out of his unconscious into a madness of clutching, leathery fingers and ivory nails, and the foetor of dead breath. ❋ Whitley Strieber (1981)

Gradually, passenger after passenger produced cigars; the aroma filled the coach, and the fragrance of the weed triumphed over the foetor of the polecat. ❋ Henry A. Murray (N/A)

In poisoning from the medicinal use of mercury, there may be salivation, a coppery taste in the mouth, peculiar foetor of breath, tenderness and swelling of mouth, inflammation, swelling and ulceration of gums ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Perfume from battle-fields rising—up from foetor arising. ❋ Unknown (1900)

It was well for us that it was to leeward and a strong gale howling; for even then the unutterable foetor wrought its poisonous way back through that fierce, pure blast, permeating every nook of the ship with its filthy vapour till the stoutest stomach there protested in unmistakable terms against such vile treatment. ❋ Frank T. Bullen (1886)

It was a great pity that we were not able to sink the prahu with her ghastly cargo, and so free the air from that poisonous foetor that was a deadly danger to any vessel getting under her lee. ❋ Frank T. Bullen (1886)

The air was hot, but it struck a chill from its foetor. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)