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  • Bearing the inscription “From Jews whose dying words proclaimed their faith in the Almighty,” the soap, surrounded by a dozen or so striped porcelain urns affixed with a red star, was piled up inside a long-unwashed glass cabinet about a foot high.

    The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010

  • The stink of filth and a long-unwashed body drifted on the air.

    Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000

  • They did what he mutely commanded–climbed the ladder and walked through the doorway, to which it gave access, into a long narrow room, rather dark and smelling of smoke and cooked grease and long-worn, long-unwashed clothes.

    Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932

  • He glanced through the long-unwashed window of the White Star

    Midnight Octavus Roy Cohen 1925

  • The walls and ceilings are yellow with grease, cigarette smoke, and "rust sweat," which Jason says is common on long-unwashed ceilings in metal-framed buildings.

    Chicago Reader 2010

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