1 Rody Kickham was a decent fellow but Nasty Roche was a stink.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 2 The faint Sour stink of rotted cabbages came towards him from the kitchen gardens on the rising ground above the river.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 3 That has the true scholastic stink.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 4 And, after all, they did not eat each other before my face: they had brought along a provision of hippo-meat which went rotten, and made the mystery of the wilderness stink in my nostrils.
5 Then there would have been a stink, for some of them are high up in Washington now.
6 "There's the devil of a stink in here," he said, suddenly.
7 I went into another chamber, but was ready to hasten back, being almost overcome with a horrible stink.
8 We told the man we could and would make such a scandal out of this, as should make his name stink from one end of London to the other.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 9 It'll make you swallow the strainer, or, as they say, in fashionable society, stink in the gullet.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 10 That meant four mornings a week in the sweltering, stinking hospital with her hair tied up in a towel and a hot apron covering her from neck to feet.
11 Never anything like these stinking, bleeding bodies broiling under the glaring sun.
12 When Scarlett first opened the door the thick atmosphere of the room, with all windows closed and the air reeking with sick-room odors, medicine smells and stinking grease, almost made her faint.
13 Now the train was passing the elevator, the grim storage-tanks for oil, a creamery, a lumber-yard, a stock-yard muddy and trampled and stinking.
14 It was only from duty that Carol dragged him and herself out of the warm hotel, into a stinking trolley, up the brownstone steps of the converted residence which lugubriously housed the dramatic school.
15 They said you got stinking stuff to drink when you were in the infirmary.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1