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Examples
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Solomon lay in the stenching hold; his irons clashed as the ship rolled.
Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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A stenching blast of chloro-stained breath brought the alien's mystifying first words to them.
First Contact Ed Higgins 2011
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What a vile, stenching piece of humanity Grayson is!
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I know that some have understood this of wild elder, that grows so far from towns or villages that the crowing of cocks cannot reach near it; and doubtless that sort ought to be preferred to the stenching common elder that grows about decayed and ruined places; but others have understood this in a higher sense, not literal, but allegorical, according to the method of the
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I know that some have understood this of wild elder, that grows so far from towns or villages that the crowing of cocks cannot reach near it; and doubtless that sort ought to be preferred to the stenching common elder that grows about decayed and ruined places; but others have understood this in a higher sense, not literal, but allegorical, according to the method of the
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Also swing by and say hi to peth who wrote the most incredibly frightening story featuring words like "birthing bed", "foul stenching", and "Devil's Tot" just 'cuz I asked her to.
weeme Diary Entry weeme 2002
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It was not only the smoke from the burning cotton barns, or the din of the angering crowds in public squares and down the stenching side-streets.
Jimgrim Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1931
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As the girl passed through the stenching, many-hued bazaar, the roar would cease for a second and then rise again.
Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914
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That was the spirit of sahibdom that is not always quite commendable; it is the spirit that takes Anglo-Saxon women to the seething, stenching plains and holds them there high-chinned to stiffen their men-folk by courageous example, but it leads, too, to things not quite so womanly and good.
Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914
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Rotting carcasses of horses and cattle, killed by the rebels 'artillery-fire, lay stenching here and there, and there was no possibility of disposing of them.
Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914
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