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miasma
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. 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
11. miasma within him – the pain, the cry to the betrayal of his youth, upped and gone and
12. Deep within her a reborn hope struggled to sweep away the miasma of grief and horror
13. through the miasma of his mind
14. That miasma of his child-
15. 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
16. an evil miasma fill the room
17. Through a miasma of misery Libby heard the other man
18. I would have taken several wrong turns in the soupy miasma if it hadn't been for him guiding me
19. They are a miasma of evil spread in their uncounted numbers all over this earth and they must be wiped out completely
20. There is no intelligence in the miasma of the realm of the Undead
21. 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
22. The chill miasma of a desecrated tomb wafted through his soul and he shuddered
23. 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
24. 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
25. Jesse coughed and gagged and struggled to find some clear air in the miasma
26. There was an earthy smell, as of some dry miasma, which came through the fouler air
27. 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
28. 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
29. 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
30. 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,
31. 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
