It's an image of fathomless, shocking power, like lifting a trap door and glimpsing something beautiful and noisome, fascinating and unknowable. |
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To this day, a hush invariably descends at noisome mushairas when she stands up to recite her poetry. |
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He dived down a dark alley and ducked down behind a pile of crates and noisome garbage to catch his breath. |
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She chased a small form into a shadowed alley full of garbage and more noisome things. |
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The bar was noisome and smelly, the stench of unwashed bodies and foul beer mingling with the rotten fish smell of the port. |
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But he gets paid to do this day in and day out, so I sort of understand why he continues being utterly noisome. |
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He was ultimately bored for, even for him, the continuous coos of adoration could become quite noisome after the first thirty minutes. |
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He did not know what it was, but it was a noisome sensation, like standing on a grate that you felt shift beneath your feet. |
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I suspect that the deal would have seemed noisome had it been dragged into the warm sunlight of public scrutiny. |
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Snyder loves George, and his noisome influence is behind this inexplicable choice. |
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The city is generously, panoramically free of any smidgen of beauty, but not without a fearsome charm and noisome excitement. |
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Walking seemed to be relaxing him slightly, for he could no longer feel his heart beating madly in his chest and the noisome feeling in his stomach had subsided. |
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They saw in it a haven for traditional values that might, in time, restore their idealized America, now overrun by waves of immigration and noisome industrialization. |
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The President too was pressed into the service of this noisome charade. |
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And there fell a noisome and grievous sore on the men which had the mark of the beast, and on them which worshipped his image. |
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Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. |
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The dino range has expanded beyond noisy and noisome T Rex and those kangaroo-bouncy raptors to include the mean-clawed, fast-flying pteronadon and big, big spinosaurus. |
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After a brief sojourn in Salvador, the old capital, they proceeded to Rio de Janeiro, then a noisome slave port with narrow streets filled with rootling pigs and goats. |
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It filled my head, that muttering sound, like thick oily smoke from a fat-rendering vat or an odour of noisome decay. |
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So far the noisome substance has not been used abroad, though American police chiefs are regular visitors to see how riot-control is done in the Holy Land. |
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Correct: I covered my nose when I walked past the noisome dump. |
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If this noisome case is any measure, the state of civic discourse and the cogency of legal argument in the United States are in deep doo-doo. |
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The dregs of knightdom and various men-at-arms shared the tables and benches in noisome sleep. |
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Days immediately preceding and following the holy days are particularly noisome and cost hundreds of thousands many hours because of traffic jams. |
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It is the privilege of the celestial luminaries to receive no tincture, sullage, or defilement from the most noisome sinks and dunghills here below. |
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