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Definition of Stenches
1. stench [n] - See also: stench
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stenches
Literary usage of Stenches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1891)
"stenches—(a) In General.—The creation of stenches and noisome odors has been
recognized always as a nuisance. The cases are very numerous where this class ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"I shall only observe, that no smells or tastes can produce a grand sensation,
except excessive bitters, and intolerable stenches. It is true, that these ..."
3. A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and by Edmund Burke, Abraham Mills (1844)
"I shall only observe, that no smells or tastes can produce a grand sensation
except excessive bitters and intolerable stenches. ..."
4. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1918)
"vaults, cesspools,17 drains and sewers.18 The stenches and foul odors that arise
from such places is conceded to be productive not only of .serious ..."
5. The Chemistry of Common Life by James Finlay Weir Johnston, Arthur Herbert Church (1891)
"—Disagreeable animal odours ; the goat, the badger, and the skunk.— Effects of
minute doses of sulphur and tellurium.—stenches as weapons of defence. ..."
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