pungencies

There were the combined pungencies of frying food, decaying fish, and open sewers; and all of it was clad in a haze of coal smoke, made roseate by the rising sun.

Julian Comstock 2009

There were the combined pungencies of frying food, decaying fish, and open sewers; and all of it was clad in a haze of coal smoke, made roseate by the rising sun.

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

I had told you that this was in reference to Orion, formerly written Urion; and, from certain pungencies connected with this explanation, I was aware that you could not have forgotten it.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue 2006

There are many different garlic varieties, with different proportions of sulfur compounds and so different flavors and pungencies.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Here is a list of common chilli varieties and their relative pungencies.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

There are many different garlic varieties, with different proportions of sulfur compounds and so different flavors and pungencies.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Here is a list of common chilli varieties and their relative pungencies.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Compare this mild evening, and all its pleasant pungencies and its vivid revelations of scenes that were blurred for weeks with haziness and smoke, with the past drought that is already almost incredible; and, if you are not harmonic and cannot sing a gladsome note, leave such gloating to the shrike-thrush, as he makes the gloomy dome of the mango resound with fluty whistling.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

The shade fell cool and dappled, pungencies swirled, leaves seemed to whisper his farewells for him.

Genesis ANDERSON, Poul 2000

Heat drew vapor from wet soil, a fog that eddied upward a few centimeters, white above umber, and baked pungencies out of it.

Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998