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miasm
1. Out of this miasma of sadness, the sound of a recorder or something very like it, quietly plays a simple tune
2. The rains had restarted, and miasma hung over the valley like a heavy pall, but toward evening the misty curtain was suddenly drawn aside, the skies turned blue as if by magic, and a most glorious panorama lay revealed to our wondering gaze
3. She heard it as if from miles away, and her head swam in a miasma of pain
4. From early childhood he recognizes his image as a representation of himself…Awareness of self could have been the beginning of future abstract thought…Somewhere within that miasma of inherited change…(from a fortuitous notice of a naturally sharp edge to purposeful manufacture) Man continued the sharpening of his tools of survival
5. So much has been made out of so little, that the little has almost disappeared into the miasma of the great overflow of your detail
6. miasma cloud of bad air, and I would encounters the smell and knew
7. headed back out into the miasma and soon found the hoof prints of
8. The few people moved about in the morning miasma like animated versions of their buildings
9. He had long since smelled the putrid emanation from Big‘un‘s trap as it carried over the flats; the unmistakable miasma of death
10. Burning buildings and a litter of dead bodies in a miasmatic stink became the normal situation in cities throughout the developed world as the death toll rose
11. There were exquisitely subtle undertones to this homely miasma; the smell of hookblossom, the smell of bark, the smell of his own sweat even, all seemed to trigger deep memories that bred a sense of familiarity to make his stomach fuzz as though he had just downed a glass of warm brandy
12. miasma within him – the pain, the cry to the betrayal of his youth, upped and gone and
13. Deep within her a reborn hope struggled to sweep away the miasma of grief and horror
14. decomposing and "delighting" by its miasmas
15. through the miasma of his mind
16. That miasma of his child-
17. order and rules are undiscerned in the miasma of unformulation that is anarchy, is to find oneself in a world that is unruled, and therefore unplayable as game, but not unexplorable as play
18. an evil miasma fill the room
19. Through a miasma of misery Libby heard the other man
20. I would have taken several wrong turns in the soupy miasma if it hadn't been for him guiding me
21. They are a miasma of evil spread in their uncounted numbers all over this earth and they must be wiped out completely
22. There is no intelligence in the miasma of the realm of the Undead
23. A village green slid past, then two small shops – 'eight-til-late' – and more houses: massive and arrogant, oozing a miasma of smug affluence into the tinted afternoon
24. The chill miasma of a desecrated tomb wafted through his soul and he shuddered
25. Jean range on the other; and this heat, moreover, which, on account of the aqueous vapours given off by the river and the considerable number of cattle in the fields, which, as you know, exhale much ammonia, that is to say, nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen (no, nitrogen and hydrogen alone), and which sucking up into itself the humus from the ground, mixing together all those different emanations, unites them into a stack, so to say, and combining with the electricity diffused through the atmosphere, when there is any, might in the long run, as in tropical countries, engender insalubrious miasmata—this heat, I say, finds itself perfectly tempered on the side whence it comes, or rather whence it should come—that is to say, the southern side—by the south-eastern winds, which, having cooled themselves passing over the Seine, reach us sometimes all at once like breezes from Russia
26. And, in fact, the composition of the manure, the fermentation of liquids, the analyses of gases, and the influence of miasmata, what, I ask you, is all this, if it isn't chemistry, pure and simple?"
27. In a terrible miasma of dog smell, which gripped him with fear and called "Run! Run!" down every nerve, he crept forward to where the eye bolt was screwed into the roof
28. And now there’s no warning any of them, he’s stuck here with the miasma of puke in his nose, the heavy body he’s lifting into the van—to the degree that Sol’s ever been liftable—and hey, when did the stars get so bright? He swings around toward the east, or what should be east, and the sky above the shuttered strip mall is exactly as dark and as light as every other patch of sky
29. Jesse coughed and gagged and struggled to find some clear air in the miasma
30. There was an earthy smell, as of some dry miasma, which came through the fouler air
31. On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume
32. The headlong precipitation of a people into the truth, a '93, terrified him; nevertheless, stagnation was still more repulsive to him, in it he detected putrefaction and death; on the whole, he preferred scum to miasma, and he preferred the torrent to the cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon
33. My God, I thought, even now, that, all that, that terrible miasma, that stuff is on its way to the sea to wash in with bland tides to lie on clean shores where bathers come at dawn
34. All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors; everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing-holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without
35. Add suffocation by miasmas, burial by slides, and sudden crumbling of the earth
36. All the miasms of the cess-pool are mingled with the breath of the city; hence this bad breath
37. After the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and traps;
38. The intermittent gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the rest was mist, miasma,
39. The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him
40. In the instance where three years intervened between the flinging of the two harpoons; and I think it may have been something more than that; the man who darted them happening, in the interval, to go in a trading ship on a voyage to Africa, went ashore there, joined a discovery party, and penetrated far into the interior, where he travelled for a period of nearly two years, often endangered by serpents, savages, tigers, poisonous miasmas, with all the other common perils incident to wandering in the heart of unknown regions
41. For love of them, I bring them into a city permeated with physical and moral miasma; I give them into the care of strangers, who regard the education of the young as a lucrative enterprise; I surround my children with physical, moral, and intellectual corruption
