Nearly all the poisonous kinds are brown, and have in general a rank and putrid smell.

It presents, also, an unnatural blue or pallid appearance, has a faint and slightly sour smell, and soon becomes putrid.

We may not cling to putrid customs and claim the pure boon of Swaraj.

All the inhabitants gorged themselves on the putrid blubber, and they died almost to a man.

In these filthy pools the villagers often perform their ablutions; they do not scruple to drink the putrid water, which is no doubt a hotbed and regular nursery for fevers, and choleraic and other disorders.

"Sometimes of course Seal Cove smells rather strongly of fish oil, warm blubber, and putrid seal meat; but, taken as a whole, there are many worse places to live in.

I'd like to be so putrid with wealth that I could have rows of wardrobe trunks, with full sets of clothes for every me.

This is just what Anti-Slavery Societies are doing; they are taking away the stone from the mouth of the tomb of slavery, where lies the putrid carcass of our brother.

Their almost exclusively vegetable diet, their excessive toil, and the habit of drinking half-putrid rain-water from cisterns which they very rarely clean, may possibly explain this physical degeneration of the Cadurci.

The diet of the Kamtschatdales, is chiefly fish, variously prepared; huigal, which is neither more nor less than fish laid in a pit until putrid, is a luxury with this people!

A breakfast at Chiswick, and a putrid fever carried off the latter, within one week of each other; but not till they had blessed Mr. Ferdinand Fitzroy, and rejoiced that they had left him so well provided for.

It was a gray, putrid-looking mess in a big, battered bucket.

This occasions the Europeans to be sorely vexed with bilious and putrid fevers.

From this account you will not be surprized, that the total loss of British subjects in this island only, amounted to above two thousand five hundred, in the space of three years that I was there, in such a putrid moist air as I have described.

When brought to the ground, it was found that the fish and the piece of meat were both in a putrid state, particularly the fish; and the loaf, when examined through, a microscope, was discovered to be pervaded with legions of animalculae.

Vegetable matter ferments, and becomes gaseous; while animal substances are changed into a putrid, abominable, and acrid stimulus.

"Some forty years ago, in a rural parish in New England, a young man lay apparently on his death-bed with a putrid fever.

The intestinal contents in such cases were not colorless, but consisted of a sanguinolent, ichorous, putrid fluid.

The idea that intermittent and pernicious fevers are engendered by putrid emanations from swamps and marshes is one of those semi-scientific assumptions which have contributed most to lead astray the investigations of scientists and the work of public administrations.

Indeed, in every region of the globe between the two Arctic circles there are swamps and marshes, steeping-tanks of hemp and flax, large deltas where salt and fresh waters mix, and yet there is no malaria there, although putrid decomposition is on every side.

Rica does not hesitate to admit that when a swampy tract is heated by the sun's rays to the necessary point for the putrid decomposition of the organic matters contained in it, the "chemical ferment," or rather the "mephitic gases," to which is attributed the morbific action, are developed, whatever may be the distance from the equator at which this marshy region lies.

Sir Robert Rawlinson, the sanitary expert, who was called in to inspect Windsor Castle after the Prince Consort's death, reported that, within the Queen's reign, "cesspools full of putrid refuse and drains of the worst description existed beneath the basements....

It's fair putrid to think o' a' the terrible hard wark we're daein' here to nae purpose.

Bobby will almost certainly be sent to Hong-Kong, and, as a natural consequence, die of a putrid fever.

On the following day a Spanish foot-soldier finding the skin, which was already swarming with worms and half putrid, carried it away with him.