"Fetor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... feet in warm water with borax, and if this don't cure, use a solution of permanganate to destroy the fetor; about five grains to each ounce of ...
— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners • B.G. Jefferis
... aroma, fragrance, scent, redolence, perfume, savor; stink, stench, fetor. Associated Words: deodorize, deodorization, deodorant, deodorizer, antibromic, disinfectant, disinfect, disinfection, exhale, exhalation, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... of the passage there came muffled sounds from houses; out of open alleys leading into interior courts stole the fetor of death that even the spice of burning unguents could not smother. The whole air shuddered with the drumming of heathen physicians in the pagan quarters, through which the silence of long stretches of ominously quiet houses shouted its meaning. At times frantic barefoot ...
— The City of Delight - A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem • Elizabeth Miller
... pause, "how happy your life must have been here! I always felt in Manchester that I was living at the bottom of a black chimney, in smoke and noise and fetor, material and spiritual. Here, you have your holy people, and the silence and quiet of God. How happy you must ...
— My New Curate • P.A. Sheehan
... here, and their religions teach them that. They could not bear the truth. One does not put a weapon into the hands of a man dying of the fetor ...
— Margret Howth, A Story of To-day • Rebecca Harding Davis |
