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  • But unshed tears can turn you rancid.†   (source)
  • Not as rancid as the hallway, still smelling of decay, but somehow sharply metallic.†   (source)
  • If my herbs are not fresh enough, if my attention falters, if my will is weak, the draughts go stale and rancid in my hands.†   (source)
  • It smelled like rancid manure.†   (source)
  • The menu usually consists of stale peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches or a small slice of rancid meat.†   (source)
  • Neumann One shoulders out, something rancid in his eyes.†   (source)
  • She came the closest she would ever be to the battlefield, for every case she helped with had some of its essential elements—blood, oil, sand, mud, seawater, bullets, shrapnel, engine grease, or the smell of cordite, or damp sweaty battle dress whose pockets contained rancid food along with the sodden crumbs of Amo bars.†   (source)
  • As soon as the car stopped, my nose and mouth were flooded with the rancid smell of death.†   (source)
  • Like he was rotting, decomposing, his insides turning as rancid as his outside felt.†   (source)
  • 'None of your rancid stogies in here, Commander!' he brayed, the moment Root made it back to Ops.†   (source)
  • The skin around his jaw was dry and corpulent, filled with lumps of hard fat, like cold butter gone rancid.†   (source)
  • She left food to defrost on the counter until it became rancid.†   (source)
  • As for most people, his initial sensory contact with Chicago had been the fantastic stink that lingered always in the vicinity of the Union Stock Yards, a Chinook of putrefaction and incinerated hair, "an elemental odor," wrote Upton Sinclair, "raw and crude; it was rich, almost rancid, sensual and strong."†   (source)
  • Our noses told us, first, that the place was filthy: somewhere plumbing had backed up, the bedding was soiled and rancid.†   (source)
  • The smells were rancid—cigarettes, marijuana, old food, sweat, decay.†   (source)
  • My nostrils burned with the stench of rancid bologna and used diapers.†   (source)
  • This always happened in a totally empty room in a house, but there was always different decor: in one place, flowery countryish wallpaper and a lingering smell of rancid Glade.†   (source)
  • There was a rancid smell of some foreign food cooking; an organ grinder's monkey bent down and defecated in the street; strangers' bodies pressed against hers disgracefully.†   (source)
  • Now she was regretting it: the air was rancid with the stink of rotten fruit and fish.†   (source)
  • And as the thought comes to me, he must see it in my face because he leans in closer, his breath rancid in my face, and says, "Come on, Rachel.†   (source)
  • After I had taken several turns I caught the rancid smell of something dead.†   (source)
  • His words emerged in wet bubbles like something from a rancid bog.†   (source)
  • When their luck was good they found some roadside inn that served rustic food which she refused to eat, and rented them canvas cots stained with rancid perspiration and urine.†   (source)
  • She gagged as a rancid odor filled her nose, and she realized that the girl in front of her had vomited.†   (source)
  • Saeed was torn because he was moved by these words, strengthened by them, and they were not the barbarous words of the militants back home, the militants because of whom his mother was dead, and possibly by now his father as well, but at the same time the gathering of men drawn to the words of the man with the white-marked beard sporadically did remind him of the militants, and when he thought this he felt something rancid in himself, like he was rotting from within.†   (source)
  • In a fresher one, there was still some milk, but it was rancid.†   (source)
  • Carrie could see beneath the surface to where the real Miss Desjardin was giggling and chuckling with rancid old-maid ribaldry.†   (source)
  • It has a rancid taste that appeals to the Iranian palate and it serves as a cheap substitute for cooking oil.†   (source)
  • Yet a frying pan sat on the old stove, cold, the grease congealed but not, when he leaned to smell it, rancid.†   (source)
  • Kate was afraid her own urine had contributed to the rancidness of the air.†   (source)
  • "Damn rancid chicken," I moaned.†   (source)
  • He is sunk in deep inertia, a rancid sweat developing, his mouth filled with the foretaste of massive inner shiftings.†   (source)
  • Haji Ali worked his hand vigorously in the pocket of his embroidered vest, rubbing rancid pieces of ibex jerky against leaves of a strong green chewing tobacco known as naswar.†   (source)
  • The sharp, rancid smell hit our nostrils.†   (source)
  • Those shrunken beings wrapped in rags that were decaying into dusty threads, with their wasted, yellow heads, their wrinkled hands, their sewn eyelids, the sparse hairs on their napes, their eternal, terrible, lipless smiles, their rancid odor, and that sad, impoverished aura of ancient corpses, made her sick in her soul.†   (source)
  • Yossarian and Orr soaked their rancid, unfriendly bodies pink in a steaming-hot tub and then went from the hotel with Milo to eat shrimp cocktails and filet mignon in a very fine restaurant with a stock ticker in the lobby that happened to be clicking out the latest quotation for Egyptian cotton when Milo inquired of the captain of waiters what kind of machine it was.†   (source)
  • The rancid smell of lemons burning, of their lives burning.†   (source)
  • There was a smell in the air too—a rancid, thick, garbage smell.†   (source)
  • The smile that Lord Janos Slynt smiled then had all the sweetness of rancid butter.†   (source)
  • As Jess reached the lunchroom, the slightly rancid smell of frying swept out of the open double doors, along with the roar of hundreds of voices.†   (source)
  • "North Charleston has such an odor," Tradd said, wrinkling his handsome nose, testing the rancid air as if it were infected.†   (source)
  • He wasn't sure which was the most embarrassing: the dirty underwear and socks that were scattered everywhere; the cartoon superhero posters that he hadn't gotten around to taking down; theSports Illustratedbikini posters that he had just gotten around to putting up; or the rancid smell that seemed to permeate the whole squalid mess.†   (source)
  • Dull morning light filtered in and salt air slowly began to mix with the hold's rancid stink.†   (source)
  • The children were still wary of him and merely watched as he set to lugging Pietro's fermenting tub out of the house and dumping the rancid contents down the far slope.†   (source)
  • He smelled rancid as usual from working with vegetables, but more so that night, as if he'd fallen into the compost heap.†   (source)
  • The soldiers become frantic, eating anything they can find: cow hooves, tree bark, rancid raw bacon, and hog and cattle feed.†   (source)
  • Rancid odours, my dear.†   (source)
  • He thrust his face into hers, forcing her to breathe his rancid breath; his untrimmed nails bit into her arms.†   (source)
  • At midnight, the Judge cashed in his chips and said, "See you all next Saturday night—if this tub of rancid lard isn't here.†   (source)
  • Or the gristle embedded like an impacted tumor in the lamb chops at the Athens Chop House, the chops themselves tasting of old sheep, the mashed potatoes glutinous, rancid, plainly reconstituted with Greek cunning from dehydrated government surplus filched from some warehouse.†   (source)
  • He takes another bite out of the apple) I may be rancid butter, But I'm on your side of the bread.†   (source)
  • His spirit rose flying and released him from fear and bitterness and rancid memories.†   (source)
  • Supper, when it was brought in by Moses, consisted of a tray of tea, some bread and rather rancid butter, and a chunk of cold meat.†   (source)
  • Partly because his rancid smell was now up close and personal.   (source)
    rancid = repugnant or offensive
  • I breathed in the smell of rancid fat as I knocked on Devi's door.†   (source)
  • It sparked and spat and hissed like burning fat and gave off the rancid odor of rotten eggs.†   (source)
  • The smell was no longer of fresh vanilla, but of rancid grease.†   (source)
  • And he should've done it before they'd left him in that rancid place.†   (source)
  • She looked as if she smelled something rancid.†   (source)
  • They turned bean curd rancid in a moment's breath.†   (source)
  • He smelled like old sweat and rancid oil.†   (source)
  • Rancid bulls' heads are not native to these waters!"†   (source)
  • Her rancid breath makes my stomach coil.†   (source)
  • They were cheap and filthy, rancid with the smell of grease-laden food.†   (source)
  • After knocking on the door, I caught a whiff of a rancid odor.†   (source)
  • His breath, stale and rancid, entered her mouth, her nostrils,, "My father— what do you mean?†   (source)
  • Gain the ability to drag rancid, colossal severed heads across a dock.†   (source)
  • My gut clenches in fear; then there's that rancid hate, flashing up in an instant.†   (source)
  • As Pig opened the trunk I breathed in the rancid smell of cheap rubber.†   (source)
  • The woman rose early and brought us tea, bread, and more of the rancid, inedible cheese.†   (source)
  • How many times have I told you not to bite at any old rancid bull's head?†   (source)
  • The butter is greasy and it will go rancid and I will smell like an old cheese; but at least it's organic, as they used to say.†   (source)
  • He'd taken on that status when Crake had been twelve, a couple of years too old for the "uncle" tag to have been viewed by him as anything but totally rancid.†   (source)
  • The more watery I make the soup and the more rancid the cheese, and the worse I make the coarse talk and proddings of the keepers, the better he likes it.†   (source)
  • …because she could not make herself heard over all the shouting: six angel hair, six tinned milk, six sesame seed bars, six cassava pastries, six chocolate bars, six blancmanges, six tidbits of the queen, six of this and six of that, six of everything, and she tossed them into the maid's baskets with an irresistible grace and a complete detachment from the stormclouds of flies on the syrup, from the continual hullabaloo and the vapor of rancid sweat that reverberated in the deadly heat.†   (source)
  • Her leg was swinging like a pendulum, and the troll's breath was breaking over her face in rancid waves.†   (source)
  • As he started to drink, he noticed that the water had a faint odor, as if it contained a few drops of rancid perfume.†   (source)
  • But he holds a corner of his rancid sheet over his nose — at least it's his own smell — and makes his away across the mouldering broadloom, past the dim shapes of the plump reproduction furniture.†   (source)
  • It seemed like some kind of adventure again, and I think he was as glad as we were to have gotten out of the rancid confines of our apartment.†   (source)
  • Her cheekbones were prominent; she smelled of milk, and of something raw, something rancid, like the brown paper meat came wrapped in.†   (source)
  • Half an hour later I stood on the stairway outside Devi's door, trying to ignore the rancid smell of the butcher's shop below.†   (source)
  • The cloying smell of rancid fat from the butcher shop below made me thankful for the cool autumn breeze.†   (source)
  • The house kitchen was a rancid, overflowing mess of bottles and ashtrays and spaghetti sauce—stained dishes, the doorless cupboards mostly bare except for a few cans of chili and soup.†   (source)
  • Her clothes smell faintly of the Smeaths' house, a mixture of scouring powder and cooked turnips and slightly rancid laundry, and the earth under porches.†   (source)
  • Leon's rancid breath—didn't he ever eat anything else but bacon, for crissakes—filled the air as he stood beside Brian looking over the tabulations.†   (source)
  • A thick, rancid smell clogged the air.†   (source)
  • The smell now, with both Lethrblaka present, resembled the sort of overpowering stench one would get from tossing a half-dozen pounds of rancid meat into a barrel of sewage and allowing the mixture to ferment for a week in summer.†   (source)
  • While Mortenson sipped the Lipton Tea, brewed, not from handfuls of torn leaves and rancid yak milk, but from tap water and bags bought in Skardu's bazaar, he wondered what Sakina would have made of it.†   (source)
  • The vile stench is made worse by the Central Market's butchers, fond of heaving freshly cleaved carcasses into the rancid waters each morning.†   (source)
  • He understood that the excuses he had always made to avoid seeing her would not avail him now, and that the time had come for him to travel to the capital and face for the last time this woman who was always present in his nightmares, with her rancid smell of medicine, her frail moans, and her interminable prayers, this suffering woman who had peopled his childhood with prohibitions and terrors and weighed his manhood with responsibilities and guilt.†   (source)
  • All the cook himself did was this: he poured the grits Into the pot, adding salt; he divided the fat between the pot and himself (good fat didn't reach the zeks, and the rancid all went into the soup kettle, so when there was an issue of rancid fat from the warehouse, the zeks welcomed it as an extra).†   (source)
  • Look…… " Loosening the ties on the cuff of his left shirtsleeve, he pushed back the soft lamarae-a fabric the elves made by cross-weaving wool and nettle threads-revealing a rancid yellow streak where his shield had mashed against his forearm.†   (source)
  • He took an extra-strength antacid tablet out of the bottle in his desk and washed it down with the watery pulpless half-rancid juice, for whatever calmative effect it might have on his acidic backwash.†   (source)
  • Pendelton pushed Singbe out of the cell and led him down the corridor past the common prisoners' cells, down a small stairway and into a musty, windowless room rancid with the stench of urine and vomit.†   (source)
  • "Mama," Esteban murmured, and his voice broke in his chest, exploding into a contained sobbing that erased in a single stroke his sad memories, the rancid smells, frozen mornings, and greasy soup of his impoverished childhood, his invalid mother and absent father, and the rage that had been gnawing at him ever since the day he first learned how to think, so that he forgot everything except those rare, luminous moments in which this unknown woman who now lay before him in her bed had…†   (source)
  • Within minutes we stopped at a farmhouse built into the mountain slope and were ushered inside, where a breakfast of bread and tea and more of the strong, rancid cheese awaited us.†   (source)
  • He's disappointed when it arrives, because the cat is definitely rancid, you can smell it even through the formaldehyde.†   (source)
  • After brewing green tea in a blackened tin pot, he added salt, baking soda, and goat's milk, before tenderly shaving a sliver of mar, the aged rancid yak butter the Balti prize above all other delicacies, and stirred it into the brew with a not especially clean forefinger.†   (source)
  • I remember our life in tents and logging camps, the scent of cut lumber and gasoline and crushed grass and rancid cheese, the way we used to sneak around in the dark.†   (source)
  • He opened his mouth and hissed—the stench of rancid bull's head and poison so strong my clothes smoked.†   (source)
  • The second image was the same figure in collage, made from the illustrations from old Ladies' Home Journals and Chatelaines, not the photos but the artwork, with those rancid greens and faded blues and dirty-looking pinks The third was the same figure, white on white, the raised parts pipe cleaners contoured side by side and glued onto a white cloth-covered backing.†   (source)
  • He was now so close to her that she smelled plainly the alcoholic vapor—a rancid fragrance of barley or rye—and she was not strong enough to return his gaze.†   (source)
  • Then suddenly the mist from his sweaty torso reeked in her nostrils like rancid meat and she heard herself give a gasp at the very instant that he yanked her body up against his own.†   (source)
  • I was terrified—terrified for the straightforward reason that not a single other soul had laid eyes on my much-thumbed stack of yellow pages with their smudged and rancid margins, and my respect for Nathan's mind was so great that I knew that if he should show displeasure with my effort, however unintentionally, it would severely dampen my enthusiasm and even my further progress.†   (source)
  • From the trench in the pavement, the rank, persistent damp mingled with the odor of rancid milk in the wagon.†   (source)
  • Pushing a milk-stained, rancid baby carriage before them, squat buttocks waddled past, one arm from somewhere dragging two reeling children, each hooked by its hand to the other, each bouncing against the other and against their mother like tops, flagging and whipped.†   (source)
  • That filthy pen of mud a foot deep, and of odor rancid, had no terrors for her.†   (source)
  • It was an elemental odor, raw and crude; it was rich, almost rancid, sensual, and strong.†   (source)
  • In the long run, says Paul Diacre, the best lard turns rancid.†   (source)
  • It was a little oily and rancid, but this was not the time to be too particular.†   (source)
  • Between the rancid accusations of Edward Carson and Justice Cohalan he had completely tired of the Irish question; yet there had been a time when his own Celtic traits were pillars of his personal philosophy.†   (source)
  • …from old Durham, said Jurgis' informant; but it was hard to think of anything new in a place where so many sharp wits had been at work for so long; where men welcomed tuberculosis in the cattle they were feeding, because it made them fatten more quickly; and where they bought up all the old rancid butter left over in the grocery stores of a continent, and "oxidized" it by a forced-air process, to take away the odor, rechurned it with skim milk, and sold it in bricks in the cities!†   (source)
  • …persists in the midst of the nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this moment, astonishing the civilized world. obstinacy of antiquated institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the spoiled fish which should persist in being eaten, the persecution of the child's garment which should insist on clothing the man, the tenderness of corpses which should return to…†   (source)
  • These "majority truths" are like last year's cured meat—like rancid, tainted ham; and they are the origin of the moral scurvy that is rampant in our communities.†   (source)
  • The odour which now filled the refectory was scarcely more appetising than that which had regaled our nostrils at breakfast: the dinner was served in two huge tin-plated vessels, whence rose a strong steam redolent of rancid fat.†   (source)
  • The host served out to us a soup made of lichen and by no means unpleasant, then an immense piece of dried fish floating in butter rancid with twenty years' keeping, and, therefore, according to Icelandic gastronomy, much preferable to fresh butter.†   (source)
  • If he had left out that old rancid one about the lecturer I wouldn't have said anything; but I couldn't stand that one.†   (source)
  • —and further instancing the known truth that in the case of animals, the young, which may be called the green fruit of the creature, is the better, all confessing that when a goat is ripe, his fur doth heat and sore engame his flesh, the which defect, taken in connection with his several rancid habits, and fulsome appetites, and godless attitudes of mind, and bilious quality of morals—†   (source)
  • A shefiend's whiteness under her rancid rags.†   (source)
  • As every person called up made exactly the same appearance he had done in the world, it gave me melancholy reflections to observe how much the race of human kind was degenerated among us within these hundred years past; how the pox, under all its consequences and denominations had altered every lineament of an English countenance; shortened the size of bodies, unbraced the nerves, relaxed the sinews and muscles, introduced a sallow complexion, and rendered the flesh loose and rancid.†   (source)
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