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  • They reeked and exuded their mustiness at night, and it was against that noisesome vapour that we shut our windows when we slept.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Young Geoffrion 2009

  • They reeked and exuded their mustiness at night, and it was against that noisesome vapour that we shut our windows when we slept.

    Saint Lazare Young Geoffrion 2009

  • Nance somewhere -- out of hot, noisesome holes of suffocation, across deserts, up endless walls, and past buzzing sounds that were mixed incongruously with strange harmonica music that seemed to express all time and space ...

    The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952

  • What flowed from the noisesome wounds he dealt was not so much blood as corrupt matter.

    The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

  • Apollo was now with his chariot of light mounted to the meridian circle and did scarcely behold with levelled eye the new-apparelled earth, whenas these dames, damsels and young gentlemen, being thus assembled together in that place (setting their feasting apart) seeking forth by sundry quarters of the garden the delightful shade, and fleeing the noisesome heat that might offend their delicate bodies, took by divers companies divers delights.

    The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love 1931

  • But this god of the "great majority," this democrat among gods, has not become a proud heathen god: on the contrary, he remains a Jew, he remains a god in a corner, a god of all the dark nooks and crevices, of all the noisesome quarters of the world! ..

    The Antichrist 1895

  • As he stepped out of the noisesome chamber, a loud, hoarse laugh followed him.

    A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892

  • Now we moved cautiously, taking soundings, as we entered some inlet or detour of the river; and now paused near some great swamp land -- some tract of hopelessly irreclaimable, grotesque water wilderness, where abound all kinds of noisesome reptiles, birds and insects.

    The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland 1875

  • Barbarous nations have little idea of delicacy of any kind; and civilisation finds it hard entirely to change nature, so that where-ever the ground is allowed to lie fallow, the old weeds appear in their noisesome rankness.

    History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873

  • But this god of the "great majority," this democrat among gods, has not become a proud heathen god: on the contrary, he remains a Jew, he remains a god in a corner, a god of all the dark nooks and crevices, of all the noisesome quarters of the world! ...

    The Antichrist Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

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