29 examples of malodorous in sentences

Whether the U.S. Agent at Nulato was justified or not in saying all the region hereabouts was populous in the summer with Indian camps, the native winter settlements, the half-buried ighloo, or the rude log-hut, where, for a little tea, tobacco, or sugar, you could get as much fish as you could carry, these welcome, if malodorous, places seemed, since they lost the trail, to have vanished off the face of the earth.

" Their sampan grounded softly in malodorous ooze.

" Jostling through a malodorous crowd that blockaded the quarrel, they gained the threshold of a lighted shop.

For it was his common practice to go to bed with the birds and rise with the sun; and more often than not he lodged in the inn of the silver moon, with moss for a couch, leafy boughs for a canopy and the stars for night-lightsaccommodations infinitely more agreeable than those afforded by the grubby and malodorous auberge of the wayside average.

Then she tripped on a low stone step, stumbled, and was half-carried, half-thrown into a narrow and malodorous hallway.

In the hot and malodorous candle-lit factories, where the real strenuous life of the town would remain cooped up for another half-hour of the evening, men and women had yet scarcely taken to horse-racing; they would gamble upon rabbits, cocks, pigeons, and their own fists, without the mediation of the Signal.

IV On the following Saturday morningrather more than a fortnight after her engagement to Edwin ClayhangerHilda came out of the kitchen of No. 59 Preston Street, and shut the door on a nauseating, malodorous mess of broken food and greasy plates, in the midst of which two servants were noisily gobbling down their late breakfast, and disputing.

I commended his taste, being myself one of those to whom water and brimstone is a combination as malodorous as it seems unscriptural.

About and among the huts of the unswept and malodorous hamlet just above the shore there were fine trees, mango, tamarind, babool and bor, showing what might have been elsewhere.

I hated the stuffy malodorous classrooms, with their whistling gas-jets and noise of inharmonious life.

After wandering through narrow and malodorous lanes, and slipping about in the offal of the souks, we were suddenly led under an arch over which should have been written "All light abandon" and which made all we had seen before seem clean and bright and airy.

They were noisy, loquacious, happy, dirty, and malodorous.

And officers arriving on leave at Victoria at 2 A.M. are driven to the conclusion that they are sent back to England from time to time to check their optimism, which at the front survives even being sent to so-called rest camps in the middle of a malodorous marsh for nine hours' military training per diem.

There was a real terror in the malodorous vapours which exhaled from him.

The Eskimos afford a striking illustration of the fact that a germ of taste for ornamentation in general is an earlier manifestation of the esthetic faculty than the appreciation of personal beauty; for while displaying considerable skill and ingenuity in the decorations of their clothes, canoes, and weapons, they mutilate their persons in various ways and allow them to be foul and malodorous with the filth of years.

Yet when we come across a dirty, malodorous savage, so stupid that he cannot count ten, who mutilates every part of his body till he has lost nearly all semblance to a human being, we are soberly asked to look upon this as merely a "difference in the standard of esthetic taste," and to admit that the savage has "as much right to his taste," as we have.

I am quite sure that if these poetic dreamers had ever come across a shepherdess in real lifedirty, unkempt, ignorant, coarse, immoralthey would themselves have made haste to disavow their heroines and seek less malodorous "maidens" for embodiments of their exalted fancies of love.

He found her a "dream of beauty and refinement" only in the eyes of poets and romancers; in reality they were malodorous and vulgar.

At last we came to Albano's little wine-shop, a dark, evil, malodorous place on the street level of a five-story, alleged "new-law" tenement.

AT THE CARNIVAL Gay little Girl-of-the-Diving-Tank, I desire a name for you, Nice, as a right glove fits; For youwho amid the malodorous Mechanics of this unlovely thing, Are darling of spirit and form.

Even now she had shuffled back into her kitchen, leaving her ill-humored lodger to puff away at the malodorous weed as he chose.

The scene changesfrom stygian darkness, desolation and gloom of dingy, malodorous factories and streets, where ragged, hopeless beggars-for-work delve and curse, to the glorious sunlight and balmy air of the "Land of Flowers."

Canal End Basin lay hard upon three-quarters of a mile up stream, and about half that distance beyond the bend of the Great Brewerya malodorous pool packed with narrow barges or monkey-boatsa few loading leisurably, the rest moored in tiers awaiting their cargoes.

ACET`YLENE, a malodorous gaseous substance from the incomplete combustion of hydro-carbons.

The unwholesomeness of the place is further increased by the malodorous swamp surrounding it.

29 examples of  malodorous  in sentences