What is "foetor"

Usage examples of "foetor".

The men sniffed in disgust at the fluid, and toward the last held their noses against the foetor they were uncovering.

The neighbours acquiesced in the inertia--but the foetor none the less formed an additional count against the place.

It seemed now as if an elusive touch of foetor had arisen somewhere close by, though its source was not apparent.

All he could see were short, faint, horizontal streaks of bluish light, but he could smell an overpowering foetor and hear a curious jumble of soft, furtive sounds above him.

It seems that the great lightning flash and deafening explosion which followed the Federal Hill occurrence were even more tremendous farther east, where a burst of the singular foetor was likewise noticed.

Still reeling from the morbid and unaccountable foetor, I seized the paper and tried to read it in the light from the doorway.

Above the foetor of the mucky snow around them, she smelled the sharper odor of the living creatures.

And she uttered a mighty spell and incantation, so that the sky darkened, and a cold wind blew, and rain fell, and the air was filled with the rustle of unseen wings, and a foetor as of the Pit filled the air.

The foetor of the Pit was its unholy breath, and the bone-deep chill of interstellar space was its blighting touch.

The foetor rising from the overflowing cesspool made me reach for my handkerchief.

Or he would start prodding with the rake at a particular shoal of foetor while I had to direct the lanthorn as he indicated.

The neighbours acquiesced in the inertia - but the foetor none the less formed an additional count against the place.

Sharina that what remained was shrinking further the way frost-killed vine-leaves sink into a foetor and ooze away.

With such an awful Heate and a Foetor of the Bodie, we welcomed the Sulphur which Thomson burned below the Table.