mephitic

1 If mephitic air be thus capable of correcting purulent matter in the lungs, we may reasonably infer it will be equally useful when applied externally to foul ulcers.

2 May gods be pliant, And grant me this: that poison—pest Light on 'em all, and on that client Who sent 'em you; and you in jest Transfer them, odious, and mephitic, And execrable.

3 The term mephitic is equally applicable to what is called fixed air, to that which is inflammable, and to many other kinds; since they are equally noxious, when breathed by animals.

4 When it was in motion, there was a grateful rush of air; when at pause, the heat was stifling and the fumes of cigarettes, pipes, and cheap cigars blended to manufacture a mephitic reek.

5 Even so, his decision has not cleared the mephitic political air.

6 A stairway descending apparently to the bowels of the earth was disclosed, and from the sombre depths escaped a flow of damp, mephitic air.

7 In a passage removed by Paine, Twain excoriates “the iniquitous Cuban-Spanish War” and Gen. Leonard Wood’s “mephitic record” as governor general in Havana.

8 There is a terribly mephitic vapour over everything.

9 These moments of reckoning—in which something that once felt exciting begins to seem noxious, mephitic, dangerous—are important to heed.

10 In 1750 ecclesiastical far-sightedness, court intrigue, and family ambitions, were actively preparing the way for the Austrian alliance in the mephitic air of Versailles.

11 Ammoniac   ammoniac Aërated, effervescing, mild, or mephitic volatile alkali.

12 The warm, sluggish air lay about him, mephitic in its touch.

13 But ever the air grew thick with mephitic darkness, ever a hollow voice was heard calling: "Touch not the beautiful form of the sorceress; she leads to sin!"

14 Ideas inculcated from childhood have a powerful influence, and the various ideas exposed above would have an undoubted influence in minimizing the mephitic, destructive effects of the feeling of jealousy.

15 You’re attacked by a giant wolf, pugilist mushrooms, mephitic swamps, and a sword-wielding spider.

16 The notion that America could civilize the mephitic forces unleashed in the Middle East seems as delusional as ever.

17 As I leaned over the hole I saw her disappearing among a confusion of oozy piles; and shuddering with the chill of the mephitic air that came pouring up, I drew back.

18 The Ivy League universities and their peer institutions are, for Will, the mephitic swamp from which most of what he detests in politics and culture emanates.

19 We then moved cautiously but rapidly forward, hand-in-hand, meeting with no difficulty or inconvenience during our passage, excepting such as arose from the mephitic atmosphere.

20 Fixed air, under the form of clysters, was injected every second or third hour; and directions were given to supply the patient plentifully with water, artificially impregnated with mephitic air.

1 毒气的

miasmal

2 有害的

bad harmful unwanted destructive damaging detrimental poisonous hurtful mischievous noxious pernicious malign deleterious injurious prejudicial unwholesome wack inimical baleful maleficent noisome pestilent pestiferous miasmal nocuous

3 有恶臭的

virose virous foul funky malodorous noisome buckish

4 有毒

venenate venenous virose virous toxic poisonous venomous noxious pernicious deleterious baneful noisome pestiferous viperous viperish nocuous viperine virulence empoison

5 有害

bad harmful unwanted destructive damaging detrimental poisonous hurtful mischievous noxious pernicious malign deleterious injurious prejudicial unwholesome wack inimical baleful maleficent noisome pestilent pestiferous miasmal nocuous ill balefully hurtfully perniciously banefully balefulness maleficence

6 臭气

stench foul-smelling effluvium mephitis

7 恶臭的

foul sour funky fetid malodorous noisome minging

8 有毒的

toxic poisonous venomous noxious nocuous venenate venenous virose virous pernicious deleterious baneful noisome pestiferous viperous viperish viperine

9 毒气

miasmal gas blast miasma phosgene mephitis poison gas