fetor
foetor BrE

The fetor was under control by the next day.

Covenant became conscious of a dim fetor in the air.

There was an unusual fetor that she couldn't quite place, but it hung heavy in the air.

That place was heavy with the fetor of corruption.

Dissolution was in the air, the fetor of rotting flesh.

I had picked out a distinct stench of sickness amid the general fetor.

It was the hot fetor that awakened me.

Already the air was close with the fetor of the harpies, and the goblins were none too clean themselves.

A distant fetor came slowly along the breeze.

A raja and fetor of each domain were appointed by the Dutch during colonial times.

"Now, Cugel, you will learn the meaning of fetor."

The air reeked with the fetor of vomit.

Fetor and borers took hold of some of the trees, ate out their hearts.

Reith tested the air and detected an acrid fetor.

"Let's find the charthouse," said Kurt, gagging in the interior fetor.

The air was thick with damp woodsy scents, the fetor of rotting leaves.

Worse, she smelled it, and let out a gasp at the unimagined fetor of it.

An oily, pungent stench of pure fetor immediately drenched the whole car.

A heavy fetor assaulted their noses, a smell sour, ripe, rich, and rank.

Now the thing was collapsing in upon itself and waves of monstrous, venomous fetor were issuing from it.

For the instant the wind surrounded them, it swept away the fetor, yet he would have done without that, too, if he could have.

The fetor was so rank it transcended mere malodor and reeked to low hell.

At last, the dragon found a trace of the elf's fetor in an opening between a few of the chests.

His breath had taken on new freight, a heavy wine odor that combined with its previous fetor in a lethal gas.

Fracto himself had been so disrupted by the taste of the fetor weed that he was unable to continue raining.

The air was hot, but it struck a chill from its foetor.

In fact, I was overcome by the foetor.

Their foetor was briefly noticeable even in this alley.

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

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

A particular smell (foetor hepaticus) may be detected.

The foetor of decay hung over the town, clogging her throat like putrid dust.

Perfume from battle-fields rising, up from the foetor arising.

"Ah, sir," one of the Slammers whispered as the foetor and its sense of protection enclosed them.

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

In such a vile summer, it's all too likely that effluvia and foetor will spread a deadly contagion."

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

As they approached, cautious, ready for anything, Joanna was conscious of the nauseating foetor of decay that hung in the raw air.

"One of Dr. Barton's herbal remedies," the Marquess told him, "a specific against the foetor.

And from it came a smell of such monstrous foetor that any man, smelling it, would gag and flee even without fear to urge him on.

For example, he said, a Jew was said to lose his "foetor Judaicus," or Jewish odor, immediately after converting to Christianity.

Immediately afterwards an utterly unbearable foetor welled forth from the unseen heights, choking and sickening the trembling watchers, and almost prostrating those in the square.

"The kinotropes are the sticking-point," Mallory opined, as they tramped up the Brompton Road, the spires of its scientific palaces obscured by foetor.

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.

Putrid matter hangs like vile seaweed from the pilings of Westminster Bridge, and every passing steamer chums up a feculent eddy that nearly overwhelms her crew with foetor!"

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.

Black monstrous bridges across oily rivers, Cobwebs of cable to nameless things spun; Catacomb deeps whose dank chaos delivers Streams of live foetor that rots in the sun.

Trees, grass, and under-brush were whipped into a fury; and the frightened crowd at the mountain's base, weakened by the lethal foetor that seemed about to asphyxiate them, were almost hurled off their feet.

They decided, however, that it was not worth their while to hew open and disinfect the long-sealed spaces; for the foetor would soon be over, and the locality was not one which encouraged fastidious standards.

That is why it is such a vicious circle ; and these premonitory symptoms of abstinence are merely the foetor of the foul breath of the dragon who is on his way to crunch you.