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... was methodically striking match after match, but without result. After a moment the acrid smell of burning ...

— The Sign at Six • Stewart Edward White

... old men drew from their belts their rustic, home-made pipes, filling them with the tobacco of the pota, an acrid herb which was cultivated on the island. The young men strolled from the porch and adopted ferocious attitudes, their hands in their belts, and their heads held high, before the groups of women, among which were the beloved atlotas, the marriageable girls, who feigned indifference, ...

— The Dead Command - From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... unholy a death. Yet nowhere could we discover any brute or creature upon which to ease our vengeance, and so, presently, the valley becoming impassable by reason of the heat, the flying sparks and the abundance of the acrid dust, we made back to the body of the boy, and bore him thence ...

— The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" • William Hope Hodgson

... the lower step, and he caught her waist. "You see," he muttered; "things for the store ... the men, wool stockings, handkerchiefs ... against their pay." The drumming rain was scarcely a foot above their heads; an acrid and musty odour rose from the boxes and canvas-sewed bales about the walls. "Ludowika," Howat said. He stopped—she had shut her eyes. All that was Howat Penny, that was individually sentient, left him with a ...

— The Three Black Pennys - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer

... occasionally from the opposite room, where Marian was sitting on a sofa, trying to subdue the hysteria which had been gaining on her since her escape from the balcony; whilst Elinor, seated on the corner of a drawer which projected from the dressing-table, talked incessantly in her most acrid tones. ...

— The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage • George Bernard Shaw

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