stinke

A visiting English writer wrote of Louis that -all the odoriferous perfumes his courtiers could get him would not ease his nose and still he smelled a filthy stinke.

La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

At last one of them saide; I smell the most abhominable stinke that ever I felt in all my life.

The Decameron 2004

“Is it not possible to deuise a waye, that this shitten beaste may washe him selfe in some place, that he stinke no more thus filthelie?”

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

And therewithall I embraced my friend Socrates and kissed him: but hee smelling the stinke of the pisse wherewith those Hagges had embrued me, thrust me away and sayd, Clense thy selfe from this filthy odour, and then he began gently to enquire, how that noysome sent hapned unto mee.

The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

Oure house, wych is but small as thou knowest, is all cluttered wyth his slimye tackle, and loe but yesterdaye I loste a customer fromm ye millinery shoppe, shee averring (and I trow ryghtly) that ye shoppe dyd stinke of fysshe.

Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923

And drinking that againe, fie, sayes the other, what a stinke it makes; I am almost poysoned.

The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897

Blücher had been overthrown, ridden over, almost taken prisoner, and severely bruised; but the gallant old hussar was almost himself again next morning, thanks to copious doses of gin and rhubarb, for the effluvium of which restorative he apologised to Hardinge as he embraced that wounded officer, in the extremely plain expression, "_Ich stinke etwas_."

Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869

At night home and up to the leads, but were contrary to expectation driven down again with a stinke by Sir W. Pen's shying of a shitten pot in their house of office close by, which do trouble me for fear it do hereafter annoy me.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 42: March/April 1665-66 Samuel Pepys 1668

Driven down again with a stinke by Sir W. Pen's shying of a pot

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 42: March/April 1665-66 Samuel Pepys 1668

At this trouble we were till past three o'clock, and then the stinke ceasing, I to sleep, and my people to bed, and lay very long in the morning.

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 33: January/February 1664-65 Samuel Pepys 1668