stenching

• This spot he chose for his night-camp in preference to the wine-reeking, stenching rooms of the way-side inns. —  Debts of Honor
• And so they journeyed on into the din and fire and stenching suffocation and red-running streams of Picardy and —  Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer
• And every morning, after Mevrouw Kink had brought in coffee, snorting whenever Trudi's hair caught her virtuous eye, or whenever the German drummer's widow struck her as being more foreign of manners and appearance than usual, Lady Hannah would call for her boots, attire herself as for a promenade outdoors, lift the corner of a blind, steal a glance at the seething, stenching single street of Tweipans between the slats of the green shutters, and -- unpin her veil and take off her hat without a word .... —  The Dop Doctor
• "Imagine a dense and poisonous jungle, carpeted by rotten vegetation in which one's feet sank deeply and from which arose a visible and stenching vapour. —  Bat Wing
• I know that some have understood this of wild elder, that grows so far from towns or villages that the crowing of cocks cannot reach near it; and doubtless that sort ought to be preferred to the stenching common elder that grows about decayed and ruined places; but others have understood this in a higher sense, not literal, but allegorical, according to the method of the —  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4

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