1768, Alexander Ross (poet), "Helenore; or, the fortunate Shepherdess": a Poem in the Broad Scoth Dialect
Now, by this time, the sun begins to leam,
And lit the hill-heads with his morning beam;
And birds, and beasts, and folk to be a-steer,
And clouds o’ reek frae lum heads to appear.

The boss appointing his nephew as a director reeks of nepotism.

[…] innumerable Legions of his Angels of Light, the warm gleames of whose presence is able to make the Mountains to reek and smoak, and to awake that fiery principle that lies dormient in the Earth into a devouring flame.

The slaughter of lambs in offering reeked the fore-courts of the Temple.

[I]f we get caught we're for the gibbet and the chains. Our flesh will reek the wind.

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