Badly need a shower

Usage examples of reek.

The last of the caulking was carried out the next day so that the entire island seemed to reek of pine tar and wet wool.

In the center of a room only 18 feet by 20, was an open can, the reeking cesspool of this dungeon in which sat a sick Negro convict confined in this dark sweat-box, perishing.

Coming, as I was noting, to see his new lands, he was obliged to pass through the clachan one day, when all the middens were gathered out, reeking and sappy, in the middle of the causey.

Surely mortal men must break under such punishment, yet they came on, clambering over the torn and twitching corpses of their comrades, their multi-coloured jib has plastered with reeking black mud, never wavering, each man trying to fight his way to the front rank of the attack, scornful of death, eager to seek it out in the smoking muzzles of the guns.

The dromos, or avenue of sphinxes, was carpeted with palm and nelumbo leaves, and copper censers as large as caldrons had been set at equidistance from one another, and an unceasing reek of aromatics drifted up from them throughout the day.

Between them and the vision, between the fecund San Joaquin, reeking with fruitfulness, and the millions of Asia crowding toward the verge of starvation, lay the iron-hearted monster of steel and steam, implacable, insatiable, huge--its entrails gorged with the life blood that it sucked from an entire commonwealth, its ever hungry maw glutted with the harvests that should have fed the famished bellies of the whole world of the Orient.

I sat in the darkness while the unknown thing at my feet ripped the flesh from his half-dead rival in strips, and across the damp night wind came the reek of that abominable feast--the reek of blood and spilt entrails--until I turned away my face in loathing, and was nearly starting to my feet to venture a rush into the forest shadows.

Together they cast a breedy scent like that arising from dank beds of galax, and it overpowered even the reek of the strange meat.

The air reeked of the sickly sweet aroma of gasohol, as New York always does.

A reek of putrid fish and fruit even in this chill damp night, though muted somewhat by the baking-sugar sweetness of Chinese gasohol from the vehicles whirring past on the expressway.

He released her nipple from his snake mouth, dropped onto the bed, and became a large, goatish creature reeking of lust.

He had a three--day growth of beard, his face glistened in the firelight with hexaped grease, and he reeked with dried sweat.

But now there was blood flowing down its neck, a green, thick, gluey ichon, whose foul reek came even across the water.

I will answer to the Prince, when he calls for an answer, and I can promise a certain gentleman his kail through the reek on that day.

You will gang your own ways, and some day others will play the tyrant over you and give you your ain kail through the reek.