 | Daniel Pennac - 1999 - Liczba stron: 214
...ofmoldering wood and rat droppings, the kitchens of spoiled cabbage and mutton fat; the unaired parlors stank of stale dust, the bedrooms of greasy sheets,...and the queen like an old goat, summer and winter . . . Dear Mr. Siiskind, thank you so much! From your pages emanates a perfume that tickles both the... | |
 | Paul Seabright - 2004 - Liczba stron: 322
...stank beneath the bridges and in the palaces. The peasant stank as did the priest, the apprentice stank as did his master's wife, the whole of the aristocracy stank, even the king himself stank, stank as a rank lion, and the queen like an old goat, summer and winter. For in the eighteenth century there... | |
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... blood. People stank of sweat and unwashed clothes; from their mouths came the stench of rotting teeth, from their bellies that of onions, and from their bodies, if they were no longer very young, came the stench of rancid cheese and sour milk and... 