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stank1 1. a small cofferdam, esp one of timber made watertight with clay 2. Scot and northern English dialect a pond or pool stank2 Dialect a drain, as in a roadway How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As it was, miserably and helplessly, not half himself, a puppet dreamer in a half-nightmare, he knew, as a restless sleeper awakening between vexing dreams, that he was being transported head-downward out of the canoe house that stank of death, through the village that was only less noisome, and up a path under lofty, wide-spreading trees that were beginning languidly to stir with the first breathings of the morning wind. What it did, I can tell you in two words--it stank. It actually stank with evil, and it was always twilight. |
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