Michael B (8th Jan 4005pm) "an intellectual and moral mephitis.". From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Soon a woman ka-wate (mephitis) came along with a vase and a gourd for water. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest] Reference
I ventured "putrid miasma" on one thread a few days ago, but "moral mephitis"?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Does not the pungent mephitis of hypocrisy once more effortlessly wheeze from this humbugger of a politician?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-23] Reference
Few, on either side of the political spectrum, come well out of the affair and over it all hangs the olid mephitis of abject appeasement. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Secretary Is Also Stupid] Reference
This indulgence, especially so on the part of an ex-president, is something of a mephitis, an abyssal seeking of ever lower depths and ever more perverse rhetorical indulgences. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Clinton Terror Bill] Reference
Come along with me, and get the mephitis blown out of you. From Wordnik.com. [The Whirlpool] Reference
Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously, upset, shoved against the side of the house, rolled over, suffocated with bilge, mephitis, and stewing oil. From Wordnik.com. [English Traits (1856)] Reference
Tin. lontcMfs of these bubbles might be collected by methods well known, and we should tluis procun; the genuine mephitis, without any mixture of atmospheric, air. From Wordnik.com. [A General collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world [microform] : many of which are now first translated into English : digested on a new plan] Reference
Calm as a summer morning walked off one of the mephitis babies, holding his pretty tail straight up like a kitten's, while the other four went on with their frolic in the grass. From Wordnik.com. [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference
My mollify - the 46 year old lush who won't admit it - with acloholic liver virus, cirrosis, enlargement and a peculiar mephitis on him out nonetheless he showers because he itches like crazy. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider] Reference
The gunpowder without the mephitis being fired, the combustion was soon communicated to the other extremity of the train, and to the phosphorus, which took fire with decrepitation, burnt rapidly, with a bright flame, slightly coloured with veilow and green, and left on the wood a black mark, as of charcoal. From Wordnik.com. [A General collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world [microform] : many of which are now first translated into English : digested on a new plan] Reference
The method he used to obtain the mort'ferous gas on which he made the experiments here related, was, I doubt not, the same with that employed to ascertain the salubrity of the atmospheric air; that is, by taking a phial filled with water, inverting and plunging it into the mephitis, then letting the water gradually out, and carefully closing the phial. From Wordnik.com. [A General collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world [microform] : many of which are now first translated into English : digested on a new plan] Reference
But since certainty is not attainable, I must ingenuously declare, that among the difterent hypo - theses that have been framed to account for this abstruse phenomenon, I prefer that which supposes that the mephitis of the Grotta del Cane is separated, by the means of fire, from carbonates of lime (or calcareous earths) and that, passing through difterent volcanic substances, it has penetrated to that place. From Wordnik.com. [A General collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world [microform] : many of which are now first translated into English : digested on a new plan] Reference
I've even had mephitis. From Wordnik.com. [The Polite Term Is Mephitis **] Reference
I wonder if flebitis could cause mephitis?. From Wordnik.com. [The Polite Term Is Mephitis **] Reference
And there are skunks mephitis mephitis too. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
Scientific name: mephitis mephitis. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange County Register - News Headlines : Top Stories] Reference
Now you ask, "What's mephitis?". From Wordnik.com. [The Polite Term Is Mephitis **] Reference
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