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  • Harry, three beds away, caught the acrid smell of burnt plastic.†   (source)
  • For several minutes I sat dumbstruck, staring at the wreckage of the tent's once-graceful form amid the acrid scent of singed hair and melted nylon.†   (source)
  • I stood up stiffly, my eyes tearing from the acrid smoke, and looked out across the cotton to the slope, barely visible in the smoggish dawn.†   (source)
  • The acrid smoke that poured in tore at his throat, forcing him back into the corner.†   (source)
  • The acrid stench of smoke and fire mixed with the smells of body odor and fetid, open wounds.†   (source)
  • The taste was acrid, but it wasn't that.†   (source)
  • Then the acrid tang of vinegar cut the air, and Teabing felt the cool liquid flowing out through the dials onto his palm.†   (source)
  • I smell something acrid and unpleasant on his breath.†   (source)
  • The air, still and muggy, held the scents of coffee and patisserie and the acrid tang of someone's cigarettes.†   (source)
  • The rain and wind paused, and an acrid smell like burning wire filled the air.†   (source)
  • Then they were gone, leaving behind a faint odor of decay, and banging acrid smoke.†   (source)
  • The window was blown out, and there was an instant, acrid, burning stink.†   (source)
  • The acrid smell of burning cotton fills the kitchen.†   (source)
  • It's probably my overactive imagination, but do I detect the acrid, metallic smell of gunpowder?†   (source)
  • The acrid smoke and its pervasive smell made me sick to my stomach.†   (source)
  • A hundred yards away a dump of Wellington boots, gas masks and capes was fired, and acrid smoke enveloped the line of men pushing forward to the bridge.†   (source)
  • And so the stale heat still remained in the shadows behind the curtains, heating up the acrid smells of my chamber pot, seeping into my pillow, chafing the back of my neck and puffing up my cheeks, so that I awoke that morning with a restless complaint.†   (source)
  • When I close my eyes, I hear Maisie's cries and Mam's screams, smell the acrid smoke, feel the heat of the fire on my skin, and heave upright on my pallet in the Schatzmans' parlor, soaked in a cold sweat.†   (source)
  • I was also hoping I'd get used to the smell—a strange, acrid stink like the supply closet in a chemistry classroom—but no such luck.†   (source)
  • He remembers the acrid odor of flames, the buzzing of flies, children crying, the taste of dust and blood on his tongue.†   (source)
  • Her books were in her bedroom, but Eleanor didn't want to open the door and let out any more acrid air —so she just left.†   (source)
  • He rubbed his cheek along his forearm, smelling the acrid scent of salt and sweat and the staleness of dirt.†   (source)
  • The light was all wrong, and so was the air: acrid and sharp, a chemical fog that burned my throat.†   (source)
  • I have no choice but to take a few mouthfuls—tasting, as I do, the acrid sting of medication.†   (source)
  • The stale air now carried the acrid smell of burnt silk as well as cigarette smoke.†   (source)
  • The acrid smell of the glue fills the air.†   (source)
  • Inside, the house was darker than charcoal, an acrid smell heavy in the air.†   (source)
  • Ripe fruits, acrid sweat, urine, flowers, dark spices, and other things I've never even seen—I can't say what goes into the composition, or why it rises up to confront me as I round some corner hastily, unsuspecting.†   (source)
  • Eight acrid and overflowing toilets served the entire room; to reach them we had to crawl not only over our own bedmates but over those on the other platforms between us and the closest aisle, always at the risk of adding too much weight to the already sagging slats and crashing down on the people beneath.†   (source)
  • The smell was musky, acrid, and the flames swallowed the homes with remarkable speed.†   (source)
  • Meg's tone was as acrid as the volcanic gas of Delphi.†   (source)
  • The acrid smoke of the burning grass obscures some of the details.†   (source)
  • Soon there was a smell of acrid matter.†   (source)
  • There was still a smell of gasoline in the church, such an acrid smell that it made Meggie cough.†   (source)
  • The acrid aftertaste of a Little Man's first encounter with Fear.†   (source)
  • Blinding and harsh, it blanketed the room in its ghastly flare, and with the light came the smell: the stink of burning hair and overcooked food, smoldering leaves and scorched metal mingled with the acrid fumes of diesel.†   (source)
  • Their smiles went sour as the room filled with the sweet, acrid smell of rotting flowers and burning hair.†   (source)
  • I waited for the police first in the kitchen, but the acrid smell of the burnt teakettle was curling up in the back of my throat, underscoring my need to retch, so I drifted out on the front porch, sat on the top stair, and willed myself to be calm.†   (source)
  • The pain in her hand, mixed with the acrid stench of garbage all around made her stomach turn.†   (source)
  • Warm, faintly acrid wetness slipped down her throat.†   (source)
  • An acrid, pungent, putrid smell.†   (source)
  • The odor of baked salmon hung stale in the air, slightly bitter and slightly acrid from the long smoldering smoke of burning alder leaves, and lay like an invisible pall over the exhausted revelers.†   (source)
  • Instead I tasted and smelled the acridness of tin plates and cups designed for tea parties that bored me.†   (source)
  • There was a strong acrid odor that puffed then vanished like the vapor of his own breath.†   (source)
  • Smoke, acrid and choking, was drifting in through the windows now.†   (source)
  • The air bag deployed, spreading white dust and the acrid scent of gunpowder throughout the car.†   (source)
  • There were wide bowls filled with yogurt, platters of thin, flattened bread, slabs of acrid cheese, and trays piled high with fresh fruit were spaced around the floor.†   (source)
  • The silence began to crawl with an acrid, banked hostility emanating from the girl who sat alone, in the round chair, in the center of the room.†   (source)
  • The acrid stink of oil fills my nose.†   (source)
  • The floor was loud, the smell, acrid and nauseating.†   (source)
  • Acrid, sharp smells, the smells of a man.†   (source)
  • Pockets of acrid smoke bubbled up under my skin, until it felt like I was about to burst open.†   (source)
  • Inside, the apartment was filled with smoke that smelled like an acrid palmetto brushfire.†   (source)
  • The black coarse tobacco made him dizzy, and it added an acrid smell to the air around them, which was already thick with the odor of sweat, machine oil, and cabbage.†   (source)
  • Most of the acrid smoke from a yak dung fire under the teapot escaped, mercifully, through a large open square in the ceiling.†   (source)
  • The room was filled with an acrid, burnt smell.†   (source)
  • Acrid, wet, on my nose and lips.†   (source)
  • Chapter Seven The Forbidden Path The smoke was acrid, and it filled John's nose, mouth, and lungs.†   (source)
  • The engines were howling again as though in pain, and the air inside the plane was acrid with the smell of machinery and fetid with the stench of gasoline.†   (source)
  • Her eyes watered from the acrid odor as she knelt over the black wooden seat and squinted into the dark hole.†   (source)
  • He has first-name relationships, sometimes admiring, sometimes acrid, with Oprah, his favorite, and also with Montel, Sally, Jenny, Richard, Gordon, Jerry, Tempest, and Ricki, whom he now flips to.†   (source)
  • The floorboards creaked slightly as he made his way inside, and that familiar acrid stench of smoke invaded his nostrils.†   (source)
  • The acrid smell of the dark-yellow pee blended into the fragrance of the cereal.†   (source)
  • They watched in horror as the line of toppling, crumbling Grandfathers overtook the lamplight, filling the air with cloying, acrid dust.†   (source)
  • It continued without stop for a full hour, a total of nearly eighty guns pounding point-blank at the shore and shrouding the river with acrid smoke.†   (source)
  • Bourne leaned over the desk within inches of the dead body, the acrid smell of the exploded shell and burnt flesh still pungent, and studied the memo pad.†   (source)
  • She could smell burned flesh and a more acrid stench of plastic and upholstery turning to carbon in the seats.†   (source)
  • The sun darkened Lourdes's skin to the shade of the villagers on the bleachers, and the mix of her father's cologne and the warm, acrid smells of the ballpark made her giddy.†   (source)
  • He tasted it too: the acrid mélange of burning oil, melting plastic, smoldering vinyl, scorched metal.†   (source)
  • The air was even mustier than before–humid and corroded, with a peculiar acrid bite that seemed to cling to the back of my throat.†   (source)
  • She could remember the smells best of all: trees and earth, her pack brothers, the scents of horse and deer and man, each different from the others, and the sharp acrid tang of fear, always the same.†   (source)
  • The fallen hall was a square of flames and acrid smoke, and the people inside (none of them had been eaten either) were burned black, small, like dwarfs turned dark and crisp.†   (source)
  • There was no more than acrid communication between the Strorms and the Mortons, and the only place where they could be found beneath the same roof was church.†   (source)
  • An acrid vapor burned his nostrils despite the heavy, wet air.†   (source)
  • The acrid smells of overheated machinery and gun smoke fill my lungs.†   (source)
  • The furnace foreman lay knocked unconscious, the white flow spurted, slowly tearing the hole wider, and men were struggling with sand, hose and fire clay to stop the glowing streaks that spread in a heavy, gliding motion, eating everything on their way into jets of acrid smoke.†   (source)
  • I seized the opportunity to gather my wits with the acrid smell of the burning Bible still in my nostrils.†   (source)
  • Jet fuel, hot and acrid against my taste buds.†   (source)
  • He would lift a glass of orange juice to his mouth inhale the acrid odor of dirt and dying flowers even to think about eating made him gag and for weeks afterward not being able to sleep that was punishment too being forced to submit over and over to a hopeless rerun of that day to what could have been done to make the sum of it different.†   (source)
  • They overturned the great waist-high earthenware jugs; duck eggs, pickled fruits, vegetables burst out and mixed in acrid torrents.†   (source)
  • I shook my head and returned to the window, inhaling the brown chemical, acrid breaths of the distant blaze.†   (source)
  • The open country smelled clean, even when the wind blew and the dust rose with its acrid alkaline smell.†   (source)
  • He was happy to be my guide in these matters; and indeed, after years of that Portuguese stuff in Africa, white and meaningless or red and acrid, the range of wines in London was a small daily excitement for me.†   (source)
  • He broke out a sulphur match and struck it on the block and held it away until its acrid blue flame turned yellow.†   (source)
  • She ran back to the board, where a thin stream of acrid smoke came from under the iron that had burned through a blouse.†   (source)
  • Each time it fell, a fine red dust rose up, spreading a rich, acrid smell in the air.†   (source)
  • The flies gathered over the bubbling crusty white stuff, and the whole house smelled faintly acrid.†   (source)
  • The acrid smell of electricity permeated the air.†   (source)
  • It tasted of the spice, a faint bite acrid on the tongue.†   (source)
  • There was an acrid taste in her mouth, as if she'd licked the bottom of an ashtray.†   (source)
  • He carefully soaked the cotton wool in the acrid-smelling spirits.†   (source)
  • The acrid smell of simmering turnips filled our cheeks with sour saliva.†   (source)
  • As we entered the apartment, I smelled smoke, acrid and choking.†   (source)
  • The room smells as she does, a powdery floral smell that lacks the acridness of perfume.†   (source)
  • A moment later a match flared, filling the room with jagged red light and the acrid smell of sulfur.†   (source)
  • The fire flickered and died all at once, leaving the room filled with the acrid smell of hot stone.†   (source)
  • It flared up quickly, billowing acrid, sweet-smelling smoke.†   (source)
  • I drew a deep breath just before I hit the fire, but the air was sharp and acrid.†   (source)
  • Each time we crossed it the acrid smell of the water was worse.†   (source)
  • The acrid smoke was making his eyes water.†   (source)
  • He could smell acrid fear and panic even through the wood.†   (source)
  • Her lemony scent turned acrid, as if she were starting to burn.†   (source)
  • Her sleeve and skirt were disintegrating into chalky cobwebs that emitted acrid fumes.†   (source)
  • It matched the acrid taste of the air, but it was slightly stronger.†   (source)
  • The smell of acrid smoke filled his nostrils, and fire lit up his sleeve.†   (source)
  • The smoke billowed, wafting out into the dining room; the smell was acrid, sickening.†   (source)
  • As he prepared the ballistae, a few laggards staggered out of the acrid smoke and onto the ship.†   (source)
  • The coals sizzled and emitted an acrid smell as they struck the liquid.†   (source)
  • She can't even look at it without her mouth filling with the acrid saliva that precedes vomiting.†   (source)
  • Taking an acrid breath from the tube, Langdon let go and swam across the bottom of the fountain until he found the smooth swell of the central core.†   (source)
  • Because dung burns poorly under the best of circumstances, and especially so in the oxygendepleted air of 16,200 feet, the lodge filled with dense, acrid smoke, as if the exhaust from a diesel bus were being piped directly into the room.†   (source)
  • A few moments later, during which Harry waited with his hand upon the doorknob, there came a loud bang and a great deal of acrid smoke billowed from a corner.†   (source)
  • The cloud of smoke vanished as Mundungus stowed his pipe back in his pocket, but an acrid smell of burning socks lingered.†   (source)
  • Questions buzzed through Eragon's mind as he settled between two flasks of acrid bubbling green potions.†   (source)
  • It was so many things—acrid, rotten, and even, from the branches and trees lying in the sun, sweet.†   (source)
  • Pecola saw Marie's teeth settling down into the back of crisp sea bass; saw the fat fingers putting back into her mouth tiny flakes of white, hot meat that had escaped from her lips; she heard the "pop" of the beer-bottle cap; smelled the acridness of the first stream of vapor; felt the cold beeriness hit the tongue.†   (source)
  • The room was permeated with the distinctive acrid furry odor of a Fremen sietch that she had come to associate with a sense of security.†   (source)
  • Meggie never wanted to set foot inside it again, not because of the acrid smell of burning seeping out of its windows, or the charred doors, but because of the memories that leaped out at her like fierce animals at the mere sight of the place.†   (source)
  • -"In My Father's House" by the Princess Irulan Jessica awakened in cave darkness, sensing the stir of Fremen around her, smelling the acrid stillsuit odor.†   (source)
  • It burned sullenly, giving off an acrid smoke that the wind brushed away to the north and west, toward the unseen bluffs.†   (source)
  • The treated canvas burned fitfully, and the acrid grey smoke hung close to the ground in the quiet evening air.†   (source)
  • The lobby of the hotel smells like candied lemon and bleach, an acrid combination that burns my nostrils when I breathe it in.†   (source)
  • Acrid steam curled into his nostrils.†   (source)
  • The acrid smoke burned in Frank's nose.†   (source)
  • He hated the acridness in his mother's and father's relationship, the conviction of righteousness they each held on to with both hands.†   (source)
  • She lay down again on the bed and sang a little wandering tune made up of the words I have sung all the songs all the songs I have sung all the songs there are until, touched by her own lullaby, she grew drowsy, and in the hollow of near-sleep she tasted the acridness of gold, left the chill of alabaster and smelled the dark, sweet stench of loam.†   (source)
  • Days earlier it had tasted acrid, offensive, but now it was almost smooth, whispering kindly to him, my friend, my friend, as he finished the first dose.†   (source)
  • There was a surreal moment where it was no longer the hollow who was holding Emma but Emma who was holding the hollow, the thing writhing and shrieking below us, the acrid smoke of its burned flesh filling our noses, until finally we had to shout at her to let go, and Emma's eyes flew open again and she seemed to remember where she was and pulled her hands apart.†   (source)
  • Just thinking about the acrid flavor of the candy dried out her mouth and counteracted the seductive qualities of Blodhgarm's musk.†   (source)
  • An acrid taste and smell assaulted Eragon, and his eyes smarted as Saphira passed through the thick layer of smoke that hung over Belatona like a blanket of hurt, anger, and sorrow.†   (source)
  • He could taste his true death in the smoke that hung acrid in the air, feel it in the heat beneath his fingers when he slipped a hand under his clothes to touch his wound.†   (source)
  • They met by the tomato plants, the heavy fruit already starting to ripen, filling the air with a clean, acrid scent.†   (source)
  • Something about watching the firewood burn, smelling the acrid smoke of his own life, had made him feel strangely confident.†   (source)
  • Then there was only the acrid stench of grain rotting in half-smouldering piles-a few columns of smoke rising from the plains, standing still in the air over blackened ruins-and, in an office in Pennsylvania, Hank Rearden sitting at his desk, looking at a list of men who had gone bankrupt: they were the manufacturers of farm equipment, who could not be paid and would not be able to pay him.†   (source)
  • Sour, acrid smoke rose from his neck.†   (source)
  • Mosehn's mother exhilarated in the breakneck speed of our journey down the mountain, puffing away contentedly on acrid Turkish cigarettes.†   (source)
  • The air was full of acrid smoke.†   (source)
  • Futility, doom, became a smell in the air, pervasive and acrid as the dead smell after a forest fire--my scent and the world's, the scent of trees, rocks, waterways wherever I went.†   (source)
  • He and Norah had woken in the night to sirens, to the acrid smell of smoke and a strange glow in the sky.†   (source)
  • You have greater need of it than I. A hundred yards beyond, Eragon and Saphira breached an acrid wall of smoke.†   (source)
  • At that instant, Eragon's back ruptured in an explosion of agony so intense, he experienced it with all five senses: as a deafening, crashing waterfall of sound; a metallic taste that coated his tongue; an acrid, eye-watering stench in his nostrils, redolent of vinegar; pulsing colors; and, above all, the feeling that Durza had just laid open his back.†   (source)
  • In the air of the church hung, perpetually, the odor of dust and sweat; for, like the carpet in his mother's living-room, the dust of this church was invincible; and when the saints were praying or rejoicing, their bodies gave off an acrid, steamy smell, a marriage of the odors of dripping bodies and soaking, starched white linen.†   (source)
  • Nick lay listening to his brother's breathing and to the stillness beyond that, smelling the sweat of the Sunlight Man and the acrid stench of the drunk's sickness and wondering again, cold all over, why Will Hodge had not come to bail them out.†   (source)
  • There was doom, too, in the acrid, metallic stench of the wheels braking against the rails and the way in which, simultaneously, the seated and standing passengers in the jammed train all lurched forward, clutching wildly and aimlessly for support.†   (source)
  • The valley was gray with acrid smoke, held close by the night's damp air, the smolder of old hay adding its sour stink to the woodsmoke and the smell of charred green cottonwoods.†   (source)
  • An acrid smell of charred fir bark and the fresh, toilet-water scent of aspen came from the wood drying by the stove.†   (source)
  • So clear was her vision of the native that she imagined she smelled the hot acrid scent of native bodies.†   (source)
  • Even so, subtly introduced as it was, steeped in the pleasantly spiced broth of the Professor's discursive, entertainingly acrid animadversions, the word and its full force and meaning—and thus its full meaning as it informed the entire substance of the essaywas so horrible that she had to shove it into the back of her mind throughout the entire bone-chilling winter weekend during which she labored over her father's impassioned screed.†   (source)
  • They were smoking an acrid-smelling tobacco.†   (source)
  • Acrid odor of seared hooves lingered about the place.†   (source)
  • The air becomes acrid with the smoke of the guns and the fog.†   (source)
  • He is acrid, suspicious, domineering, difficult (I am comparing him with Percival).†   (source)
  • The acrid smell had carried across the table and he had picked out the one familiar component.†   (source)
  • He said acridly, "Enough balking for a day!†   (source)
  • Through his landscape the tram squealed; the factory poured its acrid fumes.†   (source)
  • Already the house was full of the acrid smell of clothes boiling in homemade black dye for, in the kitchen, the sobbing cook was stirring all of Mrs. Meade's dresses in the huge wash pot.†   (source)
  • He looked through his curtain angularly down, and saw thick acrid smoke biting heavily into the air above Gant's house.†   (source)
  • But before sufficient clouds could gather for promise, a bitter wind rose out of the northwest, the acrid wind of the distant desert, and blew the clouds from the sky as one gathers dust from a floor with a broom.†   (source)
  • Lying in the single blanket upon the loosely planked floor of the sagging and gloomy cavern acrid with the thin dust of departed hay and faintly ammoniac with that breathless desertion of old stables, he could see through the shutterless window in the eastern wall the primrose sky and the high, pale morning star of full summer.†   (source)
  • The smoke surged out, thick and acrid.†   (source)
  • One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of irongray hair.†   (source)
  • He was everywhere at once, pushing, pulling, sawing, hammering, improvising, jollying everyone along with comradely exhortations and giving out from every fold of his body what seemed an inexhaustible supply of acrid-smelling sweat.†   (source)
  • With Brideshead, who came home to luncheon and talked to me on the subject—for the subject was everywhere in the house like a fire deep in the hold of a ship, below the water-line, black and red in the darkness, coming to light in acrid wisps of smoke that oozed under hatches and billowed suddenly from the scuttles and air pipes—with Brideshead, I was in a strange world, a dead world to me, in a moon-landscape of barren lava, a high place of toiling lungs.†   (source)
  • His face was down against the pebbles as the bridge settled where it had risen and the familiar yellow smell of it rolled over him in acrid smoke and then it commenced to rain pieces of steel.†   (source)
  • There was forever in that town a smell of raw tobacco, biting the nostrils with its acrid pungency: it smote the stranger coming from the train, but all the people in the town denied it, saying: "No; there is no smell at all."†   (source)
  • A thin, acrid pall as of the tomb seemed to lie everywhere upon this room decked and furnished as for a bridal: upon the valance curtains of faded rose color, upon the rose-shaded lights, upon the dressing table, upon the delicate array of crystal and the man's toilet things backed with tarnished silver, silver so tarnished that the monogram was obscured.†   (source)
  • The back kick of the pistol made her reel, as the roar of the explosion filled her ears and the acrid smoke stung her nostrils.†   (source)
  • There was a stale fruity odor from the shop of ripening bananas, crated apples, and the acrid tang of powder; the windows are filled with Roman candles, crossed rockets, pinwheels, squat green Happy Hooligans, and multilating Jack Johnsons, red cannoncrackers, and tiny acrid packets of crackling spattering firecrackers.†   (source)
  • …smell; out now from the odors of different herbs whose names he did not know that hung in bunches from the ceiling, with long ropes of garlic, away now from the copper-penny, red wine and garlic, horse sweat and man sweat dried in the clothing (acrid and gray the man sweat, sweet and sickly the dried brushed-off lather of horse sweat), of the men at the table, Robert Jordan breathed deeply of the clear night air of the mountains that smelled of the pines and of the dew on the grass in…†   (source)
  • And he heard the rubbing on a washboard and the splashing suds, smelled again the acrid soap and a voice speaking words that opened like the band's of a burnished silver accordion-Brighter than day … Brighter … Sin melted into light … Uh chug chug, ug chug!†   (source)
  • He threw down the cigar violently and it smoked acridly on the carpet, the smell of scorching wool rising to their nostrils.†   (source)
  • …and his horse, together; of boiling fudge; the brine smell of pickling vats; and the lush undergrowth smell of southern hills; of a slimy oyster-can, of chilled gutted fish; of a hot kitchen negress; of kerosene and linoleum; of sarsaparilla and guavas; and of ripe autumn persimmons; and the smell of the wind and the rain; and of the acrid thunder; of cold starlight, and the brittle-bladed frozen grass; of fog and the misted winter sun; of seed-time, bloom, and mellow dropping harvest.†   (source)
  • …chest surging with the steepening of the slope and saw the gray neck stretching and the gray ears ahead and he reached and patted the wet gray neck, and he looked back at the bridge and saw the bright flash from the heavy, squat, mud-colored tank there on the road and then he did not hear any whish but only a banging acrid smelling clang like a boiler being ripped apart and he was under the gray horse and the gray horse was kicking and he was trying to pull out from under the weight.†   (source)
  • The cigar-smoke was acrid and pervasive.†   (source)
  • She looked at the books again--black, brown, and that acrid theological blue.†   (source)
  • This ball had an acrid and penetrating odor.†   (source)
  • An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, dull groans.†   (source)
  • But, rather than swallow this last too acrid ingredient, we reject the whole moral of the show.†   (source)
  • Mr. Rochester then turned to the spectators: he looked at them with a smile both acrid and desolate.†   (source)
  • As I entered, however, my fears were set at rest, for it was the acrid fumes of strong coarse tobacco which took me by the throat and set me coughing.†   (source)
  • As soon as they entered Philip understood what the acrid smell was which he had noticed in the passage.†   (source)
  • Angus Duer had been cold, but Angus had his teeth into every change of surgical technique, and he was an acrid debater.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER V
    Later Carley leaned back in a comfortable seat, before a blazing fire that happily sent its acrid smoke up the chimney, pondering ideas in her mind.†   (source)
  • The taste of the salt was strong in my mouth, and I was strangling with the acrid stuff in my throat and lungs.†   (source)
  • The wind bore a fragrance new to Helen, acridly sweet and clean, and it was so cold it made her fingers numb.†   (source)
  • There was no need to think them dead, for their stertorous breathing and the acrid smell of laudanum in the room left no doubt as to their condition.†   (source)
  • "Ah, yes!" said he, laughing acridly.†   (source)
  • It was not alone that it was composed of all the ills of mortality and with the pungent, acrid smell of blood, but it seemed as though corruption had become itself corrupt.†   (source)
  • After an evening of Gottlieb's acrid doubting, Martin was inspired to hasten to the laboratory and attempt a thousand new queries into the laws of micro-organisms, a task which usually began with blasphemously destroying all the work he had recently done.†   (source)
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