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Consider first the matter of the prevalent smells: When the copra was curing and the village green was studded with thousands of little cusps, each being brown without and milk-white within, and each destined to remain there until the heat had dried the nut meats to the proper brownish tone, there rose and spread upon the air a stench so thick and so heavy as to be almost visible; a rancid, hot, rottenish stench.
From Place to Place 1910
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The lake was sunk to quarter size, it had horrible raw banks of clay, that smelled of raw rottenish water.
Women in Love 1907
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