Crossword-Solution: GRAVEOLENT 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The older travellers were certainly not blasés; they seemed to find pleasure and beauty wherever they looked: Ca da Mosto (1455), visiting the Senegal, detected in this graveolent substance, fit only for wheel-axles, a threefold property, that of smelling like violets, of tasting like oil of olives, and tinging victuals like saffron, with a colour still finer.

The stratum of the earth is black and pitchy, and the springs beneath it are of a dark and graveolent water.

Amongst the minor pests are the _nkran_, or 'driver,' the _ahoho_, a highly-savoured red ant, and the _hahinni_, a large black formica terribly graveolent; flies like the tzetze, centipedes, scorpions, and venomous spiders, which make men 'writhe like cut worms.' There was a weary uniformity in the closed view, and the sole breaks were an occasional plantation or a few pauper huts, with auriferous swish, buried in that eternal green.

Now I was getting tired, and bored with the whole business, and stifled with the close atmosphere--laden with every graveolent horror; besides, I had not escaped from London "chaff" and Parisian _persiflage_, to be mocked by a wild Virginian.

This graveolent evil is the pest of soiled newspapers--journals of ill savour--not imparted by any fetid sort of printers' ink, but by vile advertisements, whereat the physical nostrils, indeed, are not offended: but the moral nose is in great indignation.