One does not argue or contend with the foul miasma that settles over stagnant water; one leaves it and climbs to a higher region, where the air is pure and the sunshine fair. From LearnThat.org. [Lillian Whiting.]
And with him came the miasma of that nauseating perfume. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
It was an incredible stench, an almost overpowering miasma of decay. From Wordnik.com. [But, I Don't Think] Reference
Less certain is what kind of world this miasma of greenhouse gases will bring. From Wordnik.com. [Too Much Hot Air] Reference
Success, material power, money, -- all of them illusions, miasma of the soul, blinding men to reality!. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
As we step past the miasma of the mind and move into our holy consciousness, it sheds light on verse 1. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Hunting: Holy Bible, Holy Mirror: How Looking Beyond Literal Meaning Enhances the Bible's Sanctity] Reference
It is in this miasma that Uzbekistan is deftly maneuvering between Moscow, Washington, Beijing, and now Seoul. From Wordnik.com. [Derek Flood: From Totalitarianism to Turbines: The Unending Struggle for Power in Central Asia] Reference
The result is a warm and embracing, swirling, sonic miasma with a center of crystal and harmonies as its anchor. From Wordnik.com. [School Of Seven Bells: Blurring Life And Art] Reference
The novel spun a miasma of death and decay. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The miasma of the marshes. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The Greek concept of miasma is at play here. From Wordnik.com. [More on Prologues] Reference
I find the best way to address this miasma is with a high-end programmable universal remote. From Wordnik.com. [Controlling the Living Room - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
In areas where there are monsters milling about, a dark vortex -- known as the miasma stream -- needs to be sealed to prevent more monsters from appearing. From Wordnik.com. [GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features] Reference
Tommy used words like "miasma" because he wanted to be a writer. From Wordnik.com. [You Suck]
According to the conventional wisdom, Carter was dour and he created a kind of miasma that affected the country for the worse. From Wordnik.com. [Commander in Grief] Reference
Uh-oh, the miasma is back!. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » The White House Version of Success] Reference
'miasma' contracted by down-beds from all their various occupants through successive generations! and my imagination got disagreeably excited in consequence. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
Throughout the whole place reproach hung like a miasma. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
Thankfully, some refreshing sounds have bubbled up through the miasma. From Wordnik.com. [Music For The Soul] Reference
The air, even of the foreign concessions, becomes tainted by the foul miasma rising from the. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
And then again, a few moments later: "It's as if the house is in the grip of some sort of miasma.". From Wordnik.com. [The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters] Reference
The miasma was strongly perceptible to the smell, and our horses were plagued with flies and gnats. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
Europeans, and year by year it must infallibly tell on the Germans, exposed as they are to sun and miasma. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
It prevents thirst, and wards off miasma; it protects from chills, and does not induce too much animal heat. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
From the instant they had driven through the automatic garage door, Brion had swum in this miasma of defeat. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of the Damned] Reference
They are not liable to be attacked by miasma in malarious countries; epidemics or contagions where they exist. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
It went as miasma is dispelled by the sun and wind -- as pestilence is killed by the frost -- unseen, unprotesting. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Instead they used the irrefutable DNA evidence and tainted it with a miasma of contamination existing only in their minds. From Wordnik.com. [Sizing Up The Candidate] Reference
There is a moral malaria of the place as fatal to the versatile life of the imagination as the physical miasma is to health. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
Ensenada, built on a malarial swamp, was reeking with miasma, and the houses were raised on posts about a yard above the slime. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
How long did she remain thus, half-unconscious, in the atmosphere more and more laden with miasma in proportion as the sun sank?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The next moment materialized out of the miasma of the morning the figures of Bakahenzie and Marufa, followed by a file of warriors. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
Much has been said of the "pestilential climate of Africa," and the certain doom of those who venture within the spell of its miasma. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
After a few weeks 'labor, she, herself, overcome by the terrible miasma, was taken seriously ill, and was obliged to return homeward. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
The absence of swamps, the porous nature of the soil, and the extent of cultivation account for the freedom of the island from miasma. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
The decaying vegetation gives the water of the bayous and stagnant ponds a dirty coffee color and taints the air with malarial miasma. From Wordnik.com. [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference
The surrounding country is fertile, but unhealthy during the hot weather, on account of the miasma rising from the morasses and lagoons. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads] Reference
Without it he would be lost in a miasma of depression, neuroses and a small studio apartment on West 48th Street with inadequate closet space. From Wordnik.com. [HOLLYWOOD'S NEXT BIG THING] Reference
Lagos alone will grow from 6.5 million people in 1995 to 16 million by 2015, a miasma of slums and decay where a fifth of all children will die before they are 5. From Wordnik.com. [BIRTH DEARTH] Reference
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