| Moving her body through the crowd of reeking villeins and fat noblemen, she looked up at Will, she being half a foot shorter than he. |
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| In a moment they were standing in a dim sickroom, lit by three or four sulfur candles placed here and there, reeking with disinfectant. |
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| Roni Mahler, guesting as the Countess, is diamantine as A Dragon Lady, all knowing, all seeing, reeking with impatience over insubordination. |
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| Now the musty walls are reeking only of Darren Clarke and the pungent whiff of his cheroot. |
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| In these elections it advocates an extreme rightwing programme, reeking of nationalism and xenophobia. |
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| I stripped off my sodden socks and my snowsuit, already reeking of wet wool, and left them on the radiator. |
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| Too hung over to strip naked I'll shower fully clothed, squirting half a bottle of shampoo onto the reeking stains on the front of my shirt. |
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| Two decisions, both reeking of political patronage, were most important in influencing the control of Australia's media. |
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| Perhaps I should turn up late, reeking of red wine and motel sheets, with lipstick on my collar and my flies down. |
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| Jim watched them, each dressed in fancy evening clothes and still reeking of alcohol. |
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| Phil took the hazards of his job lightly, leaving a long shift with red eyes, sore throat and clothes reeking of cigarettes and beer. |
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| Indeed, he coughed just reaching for his lighter from his reeking smoker's bower on the settee. Giving up seemed impossible. |
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| With the air reeking of smoke, the firefighters got to work in dousing the flames as the flashing blue light of the fire engine lit the neighbourhood. |
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| Later, we collected our daughter from school a little unsteady and reeking of gin. |
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| The rain descended harder than ever, and he took refuge in the arched doorway of the village church, his boots already bemired, his great coat reeking with the downpour. |
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| It is, for instance, common to find these owls riddled with porcupine quills or reeking of skunk scent. |
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| The bodies hung there for weeks, reeking and swelling grotesquely in the equatorial heat. |
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| I stopped for a coffee at Harbor Springs, a spick-and-span resort town – not smug, but reeking of contentment. |
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| A group of German tourists makes its way to the top of Mount Etna and looks into the reeking and smokefilled crater. |
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| Senator Cowan thinks that that is odious and reeking of the plague of the rubber stamp. |
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| At the back of his reeking street stall, a cage full of half-alive birds watch. |
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| The DHA EME Sector in Lahore closed sewers send untreated sewage to ponds where the water, was thick, black and reeking of ammonia and other noxious odors. |
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| Blood mingled with liquescent skin and melting bone to form a reeking gelatinous mask. |
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| You probably didn't notice that you are reeking of their foul odor. |
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| As new allegations of lawbreaking surface, journalism itself is reeking. |
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| He staggers downstairs in cut-off jeans, reeking of booze. |
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| It was the LeDain Commission that republished the The Black Candle, with an introduction describing the book as reeking of popular racial bias, fables, and sensationalism. |
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| He placed his reeking lips upon my throat! |
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| From what bulk-ridden strumpet reeking home? Saving your reverend pimpship, where d'ye ply? |
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| Populations are often highly critical of the State, which they deem inefficient, a tool used by politicians to further personal ambitions, out of touch with its citizens' worries and reeking of corruption. |
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| All horizontal surfaces were occupied by at least one open beercan stuffed with cigarettes saturated in some reeking liquid. |
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