A novel indoor air quality investigation was associated with carbon dioxide and methane accumulation, presumably from effluvia from geologic sources. From LearnThat.org. [www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2124746]
Our magic motor stopped, the doors swung open – and we must have been downwind because a certain effluvia crept over us. From Wordnik.com. [2009 July « Official Harry Harrison News Blog] Reference
Of the fatal effects of the effluvia from the excreta it would seem unnecessary to speak, were they not so constantly neglected. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not] Reference
Man, those gigs where you get all the effluvia are the sweetest ones. From Wordnik.com. [Gawker] Reference
The use of certain fumes to counteract contagious effluvia. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
At that time noxious effluvia was not peculiar to this parish. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
All the rotting effluvia of the seashore rolled into one smell. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
Miasma is its synonym, -- infecting effluvia floating in the air. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
That trace of effluvia which in force could sicken a Terran, was his guide. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
The breezes that blow from that mountain are all charged with (odoriferous) effluvia. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
All my attempts, at least, to communicate it by effluvia have hitherto proved ineffectual. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
The water ran down every channel, and very little blood could be seen, or effluvia noticed. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
The communication of disease by contact, or by the inhalation of the effluvia of a sick person. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Was it from the effluvia arising from the dead bodies of their companions that they lived so long?. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829] Reference
Rivers of effluvia and brown water passed into cisterns, tanks, and sewage lagoons to be reclaimed. From Wordnik.com. [The Dadaist] Reference
The smell of the Kardo uniting with the general effluvia of the room and its inhabitants heightened his queasiness. From Wordnik.com. [Star Hunter] Reference
They noticed at once how clear the air was, free of the dust, shed cells and general effluvia of many human bodies. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
And he declared that neither animal nor bird could breathe the noxious effluvia from the tree without instant death. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference
The world is a vast organism, all the parts of which are connected through an unceasing exchange of molecules of effluvia. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
I have often stood among a herd which had the distemper without being conscious of its presence from any particular effluvia. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Several instances have come under my observation which justify the assertion that the disease cannot be propagated by effluvia. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
The breath becomes foul and fetid, and the effluvia from the ulcerated surface, is very sickening to the patient and all around him. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time] Reference
The carpet was spoiled -- the house was impregnated with the sooty effluvia, and the company was expected to arrive at nine o'clock. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841] Reference
Is or is not that which is called magnetic effluvia a something, a stuff or a substance, invisible and imponderable though it be?. From Wordnik.com. [Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution] Reference
December following with fresh variolous matter, and at the same time was exposed to the effluvia of a patient affected with the smallpox. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Physicians, in visiting the sick, have been known to form a prognostic, before having seen the patient, from the effluvia of the sick-room. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829] Reference
The packages are never sent to this country in the hold of the ship, as their contents are easily tainted by noisome effluvia, of sugar, &c. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
The use of lime in whitewash is not only to give a white color, but it greatly promotes the complete oxidation of effluvia in the cellar air. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Slowly, my shaking stilled, effluvia in the room stopped moving, and I began focusing on the bars of color on the screen. From Wordnik.com. [The Nielsens (part two)] Reference
I stood among a knot of prisoners, enveloped in a nauseous vapour; for there arose musty, mouldy, effluvia which gradually overpowered my senses. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
I brought it up earlier this week simply to make a point about the implacable GOP need to be in power, other considerations being so much effluvia. From Wordnik.com. [Thought for food] Reference
The effluvia that proceeds from their persons in the summer season is quite insufferable; it is as if you applied your nose to a cask of rancid oil. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2)] Reference
It has been imagined that the cow-pox is capable of being communicated from one person to another by effluvia without the intervention of inoculation. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
No drainage by secret, underground seams in the soil can then poison the water of wells; and no effluvia can arise to taint the air and create fevers. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884] Reference
The atmosphere seemed to be charged with foul air: from the prison ships; and with the effluvia of dead bodies washed out of their graves by the tides. From Wordnik.com. [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference
The state of the vessel was such as cannot be described, and the fetid effluvia, arising from it, offended the senses on approaching her within fifty yards. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 374, June 6, 1829] Reference
I want you to hide your disgust, take no heed to your clean clothes, and come right down with me, -- here, into the thickest of the fog and mud and foul effluvia. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861] Reference
Among the close and dark recesses of the woods the air stagnates, and requires some violent storm to clear it of putrid effluvia, and render it fit for respiration. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
When she looks at a person or a thing she senses the effluvia that radiate from them and it is by this that she gauges her loves and hates or her tolerance of them. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
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