| 1. | With stench and smoak Such resting found the sol. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | Thou odoriferous stench sound rottennes. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | The pitch was bubbling in the seams the nasty stench of the place turned me sick if ever a man smelt fever and dysentery, it was in that abominable anchorage. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 4. | Leaving the door ajar, amid the stench of mouldy limewash and stale cobwebs he undid his braces. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 5. | So vividly did he recall that hospital stench of dead flesh that he looked round to see where the smell came from. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 6. | That lake, the noisome stench exhaling, round The city' of grief encompasses, which now We may not enter without rage.. - from The Divine Comedy, Complete by Dante Alighieri |
| 7. | Hauled stark over the gunwale he breathes upward the stench of his green grave, his leprous nosehole snoring to the sun. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 8. | Under ordinary circumstances such a stench would have brought our enterprise to an end, but this was no ordinary case, and the high and terrible purpose in which we were involved gave us a strength which rose above merely physical considerations. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 9. | THE NYMPH _With a cry flees from him unveiled, her plaster cast cracking, a cloud of stench escaping from the cracks_ Poli... - from Ulysses by James Joyce |