They sat with wet towels about their heads and eyes, in poisonous fumes and dreadful stenches which crept down from above, where heavy shells burst incessantly, shaking all the earth and blowing out the candles.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
The very antiquity of the houses is whitewashed, and the marshes on all sides send up stenches new and old, till the hot air is sick with them.
"The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)"
Frederic G. Kenyon
The perspective is seldom free of them, and from time to time the air is tainted with their breath, which is now one of the most characteristic stenches of civilization.
"London Films"
W.D. Howells