Nick preferred the open alley, with its ripe rankness and keening draft.
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They have a raw, wooden hokeyness, a rankness, a stench of bitter memories.
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Piotr laid his finger against his lips — and smelled the rankness of Agnieszka's genitals.
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I will physic your rankness, and yet give no thousand crowns neither. Holla, Dennis!
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Its flesh is white and delicate, and has the usual taste, without any rankness.
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Their flesh has no rankness, nor is inferiour in flavour to our common venison.
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It would appear to be this grosser sense of rankness, arrogance, in which Amos vi.
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Owing to the rankness of its food, the smell of the fulmar is very offensive.
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This it does in some instances by smothering them, through the rankness of the growth.
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And the rankness of the growth of this evil is not more startling than its rapidity.
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I smelled the rankness of his rags as he thrust one grimy paw at the girl.
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Padlin felt cool, wet air against his cheeks and he caught the rankness of the East River.
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Tiny, vicious scud chillies are present and correct, but it's short on the classic Thai salad's alluring rankness.
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It produces uncomfortable images, which arouse notions of unutterable things, and exude the odour of lechery and rankness.
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The very rankness of the smell of manure in the clear sweet air awoke something heady in his brain.
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Judging by the rankness of the floor and the roughness of the shadows, Peter suspected that he was in some sort of cave.
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Almost as angry as the descriptions of poverty was Orwell's denunciation of the chasm between prim middle-class socialists and the rickets and rankness of working-class life.
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I can speak with knowledge on this point as I was there just a few weeks ago in the emergency reception area, which competes with the toilets at Dover harbour for rankness.
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What did the stacked boxes and baskets of our youth represent but the boundless fruitage of that more bucolic age of the American world, and what was after all of so strong an assault as the rankness of such a harvest?
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What did the stacked boxes and baskets of our youth represent but the boundless fruitage of that more bucolic age of the American world, and what was after all of so strong an assault as the rankness of such a harvest?
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He travels next to North Carolina, which "helps him round his rude aesthetic out" by savoring rankness (burly smells of dampened lumber, etc.) like a sensualist. > It purified him. It made him see how much > Of what he saw he never saw at all. Crispin next plans a colony of poets, which would allow a new intelligence to prevail.
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In eleven lines of free verse, "Root Cellar" consists almost in its entirety of images of the root cellar. The poem highlights the "dank" humidity of its setting and engages with a range of the reader's senses. The verse abounds with dynamic visual imagery of the roots, bulbs, and stems practically growing before the eyes of the speaker. The olfactory imagery of the cellar's rankness, presented largely in a litany following the sixth line, blends with the tactile nature of the "slippery planks" in the ninth line.
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