A vile earthy smell welled up to our nostrils.

I felt my nostrils try to wrinkle shut in nauseated repugnance as the vile smell hit them.

Head down, he forced his way in, pushing into the hall through air that felt as dense as water, grimacing at its vile smell.

Marshall had caught wind of the water's vile smell at the last second and acted instinctively.

From it there came a vile smell.

They stank with a vile, strong smell as human as it was animal.

The vile smell of him was already oozing across the room.

There was no answer, no sound, but a faint, sour, vile smell of burning-singed cloth or hair.

In the noise of the storm, and this vile smell to all sides?