“One word came to mind: pee-yew. Evan tried to place the odor; it wasn’t a heap of decayed garbage or that of a spoiled fish. Truth be told, he smelled like rotten cheese.”
“There are two kind of people in the world: Those who smell horse and go 'pee-yew', and those who smell horse and go 'mmmmm'.”
“The smell of dead fish lingered in the air, and excited flies darted from fish to fish lapping up the decay.”
“All places where the French settled have corruption at their heart, a kind of soft, rotten glow, like the phosphorescence of decaying wood, that is oddly attractive.”
“It was a garbage heap, and it was Sinai.”
“In the State of Denmark there was the odor of decay...”