"Then, as white flame crackled past his ear, singing his hair odorously, he hunched his big bulk into a flying tackle."
"Ramshackle stalls roofed with flapping tarpaulin and lit with naked bulbs jostled each other down each side of the littered road; their merchandise, which ranged from whelks to underwear, was open to the sooty air, while behind them tottering shops, open-fronted and ill-lit, cowered odorously."
"The kitchens, stables and outhouses were odorously barbaric in squalor."