What is "noisome"

Usage examples of "noisome".

They were indeed the same dark folk who had shanghaied Carter on their noisome galley so long ago, and whose kith he had seen driven in herds about the unclean wharves of that accursed lunar city, with the leaner ones toiling and the fatter ones taken away in crates for other needs of their polypous and amorphous masters.

They are mean and noisome parasites on real Devildom, just as their counterparts are parasites on humanity.

From Dunedin the Alert and her noisome crew had darted eagerly forth as if imperiously summoned, and on the other side of the earth poets and artists had begun to dream of a strange, dank Cyclopean city whilst a young sculptor had moulded in his sleep the form of the dreaded Cthulhu.

From somewhere out of sight, Jennet heard the bleating of sheep and when she inhaled she caught the noisome scent peculiar to puering hides in preparation for tanning.

Standish lay there, unable to move, unable to speak, unable to do anything but let tears flow from his wide-open eyes down into his cold ears, until he was flung into that noisome mess of composted human flesh, to sink into a mass of maggoty corruption.

Butyl mercaptan sallied forth to meet and mingle with blue noisome clouds of smoke.

The last and largest tribe of Oddlings, the abominable Skritek, also called the Drowners, lived in most parts of the swamp, but were particularly numerous in the vast and noisome marshlands south of Ruwenda Citadel, as well as the Thorny Hell situated in the north-central region.

Hunger had wasted their sallow cheeks, and the air of noisome dungeons had sunken their rheumy eyes.

Like how to give your old pal Beaver a Viking funeral and get rid of these noisome little snakelets at the same time.

To the ignorant populace the Vier Prison was the home of noisome serpents and the rendezvous of the devil and his witches of Rocbert.

Only a thorn zareeba as yet enclosed that noisome prison and the space about it.

His senses had not been assailed by any noisome effluvia This was no unplausible ground for imagining that this death had some other cause than the yellow fever.

They are shedding their dead matter in suppurating clots that eddy free and drift up like oil, expanding as the crushing pressure lessens, enveloping and suffocating fish and weed, until what breaks the waves with a mucal slurp is a noisome coagulate of infection and smothered sea-life.

In these sites they joined the homeless human beings who had always been there, the winos and cokers and foamers and all the others in the noisome military surplus jackets and clotted beards and twine-tied shoes.

That as Louisianians, as Southerners, as Americans, we proudly claim our share in the fame of Lee as an inheritance rightfully belonging to us, and endowed with which we shall piously cherish, though all calamities should rain upon us, true poverty--the poverty indeed that abases and starves the spirit can never approach us with its noisome breath and withering look.