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  • The resulting stench can be overpowering: One eighteenth-century account described “pox that were so rotten and poisonous that the flesh fell off . . . in pieces full of evil-smelling beasties.”

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • The resulting stench can be overpowering: One eighteenth-century account described “pox that were so rotten and poisonous that the flesh fell off . . . in pieces full of evil-smelling beasties.”

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • The resulting stench can be overpowering: One eighteenth-century account described “pox that were so rotten and poisonous that the flesh fell off . . . in pieces full of evil-smelling beasties.”

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • I just stepped out of my office for lunch only to find evacuated officials, fire engines, and clouds of evil-smelling smoke emanating from the top of the building.

    Garret Fitzgerald - the truth nwhyte 2009

  • There was, for instance, a sordid and evil-smelling smoking room in the hospital at Cygnet that had a machine on the wall where patients lit their cigarettes by pressing a green button.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • "Being surrounded by evil-smelling filth – it would have made the Boro feel like they were at home, wouldn't it?"

    The art of creating a stink in the dressing room Harry Pearson 2010

  • There was, for instance, a sordid and evil-smelling smoking room in the hospital at Cygnet that had a machine on the wall where patients lit their cigarettes by pressing a green button.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • Aware of this, my mother was in a permanent rage – she had not asked to chug through grey countryside on a filthy, evil-smelling, dwarf, shunned, freshwater cousin of the Good Ship Lollipop.

    'Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History' 2010

  • Aware of this, my mother was in a permanent rage – she had not asked to chug through grey countryside on a filthy, evil-smelling, dwarf, shunned, freshwater cousin of the Good Ship Lollipop.

    'Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History' 2010

  • Aware of this, my mother was in a permanent rage – she had not asked to chug through grey countryside on a filthy, evil-smelling, dwarf, shunned, freshwater cousin of the Good Ship Lollipop.

    'Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History' 2010

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