Cook explained that until then it was "procured from the confectioners and fishmongers, which had been taken from stagnant ponds and noisome ditches; consequently those who partook of it imbibed the filthy impurities which it contained".
But that does not justify the British system of taxing television sets, any more than it would allow the government to tax spectacles to finance a favoured daily newspaper.Mr Miller describes the BBC as a "noisome, overweight and anachronistic beast".
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.
Meanwhile, Israelis and Palestinians remain incarcerated in a noisome prison, echoing with its calls for revenge; the key, it seems, has been thrown away.
Despite increasing prosperity in Virginia over the following years, the company's role came under attack as internecine disputes among the shareholders grew and as the king himself became offended both by the trend toward popular government in Virginia and by the colony's efforts to raise tobacco, a "noisome" product of which he disapproved.
Correct: I covered my nose when I walked past the noisome dump.
Noisome means smelly and does not mean noisy.
Let us give thanks for this merciful escape....The Reagan-era trappings — the noisome rococo of nouvelle cuisine, the early cell phones as long as a shoe, and the rise of Phil Collins — are fair game, but that is just the start.
Pacino's mind is elsewhere, and Williams has the quick-smiling jumpiness of a man not with a noisome secret to hide but with a fresh halibut down his pants.
Hence the scene in which Peter, confronted with a noisome child, thumps him hard in the stomach.
Why are we gratified, not wearied, to realize that the noisome Dean, under the babble of his randy bluster, and despite his railing against "this God-and-community bullshit," is truly a man of honor?
