But by the time we reached the baggage-claim area the air had turned hot and thick, and filled with the stench of sweating bodies.
Disappointed tourists are unprepared for the shabby and unsalubrious state of la Canebière, its upper reaches inhabited by the homeless, drug addicts and alcoholics, the air in its litter-strewn pavements filled with the stench of urine and beer.
None of these people are separate from one another; the air they breathe is filled with the stench of a million deaths, and the beauty of a million flowers, too.
Piles of smoldering trash and the black skeletons of burned trucks surrounded a recycling station that had also been torched; the air was filled with the stench of burning plastic.
Melville's brutal but ineffably sad masterpiece -- filled with the stench of rotting whale carcasses, yet lyrical and tender -- is one of those books from which the critic should step back and say, as Melville said of the sperm whale's brow, "I but put that brow before you.
After being soaked in rain water for days, the tent is filled with the stench of the damp fabric and bedding.
Ficksburg retains the topographical scars of apartheid - still divided between a prim, well-built town centre, once reserved for whites, and a sprawling "township" filled with the stench of sewage and uncollected rubbish, but packed too with neatly manicured front gardens, kiosks, and small, brick-walled government-built houses.
The bible is frustratingly silent on why Vashti said "no," but her "no" is a breath of fresh air in a room filled with the stench that comes when nothing matters but pleasing one's self.
"When I woke up my whole body was filled with that awful stench.
Then, on Oct. 5, 2000, after returning from a three-week vacation, the Birrenbachs discovered that the closet affected by the leak "was covered with black mold and that the entire apartment was filled with a foul stench".
