Never heard anyone use 'mephitic; outside of Lovecraft. From Wordnik.com. [And Now The End is Near ...........] Reference
The air was warm and charged with a pungent, almost mephitic odor. From Wordnik.com. [The Winged Men of Orcon A Complete Novelette] Reference
Conan sniffed the air, more damp and mephitic of late than before. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and The Gods of The Mountain]
The dark red dropping sizzled where it struck the moist, mephitic street. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
In Manhattan, you could smell the mephitic vapors of burning metal for weeks. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Countdown to Ecstasy] Reference
He could not breathe because of the mephitic gases of imperialism and militarism. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference
White pus oozed from the center and a mephitic miasma arose from the rotting meat. From Wordnik.com. [Carnivores of Light and Darkness]
The illusion will be heightened by characteristic scenery and mephitic exhalations. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The "fire-mist" and the mephitic vapors were finally swept away; another era was preparing. From Wordnik.com. [Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul] Reference
MarcLord: “In Manhattan, you could smell the mephitic vapors of burning metal for weeks.”. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Countdown to Ecstasy] Reference
Feeling none too energetic himself after the mephitic encounter, the swordsman sat down on a rock. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
It was as if the entire mephitic town had decided to creep forth to teach the interlopers a lesson. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
This mephitic fusillade struck them from behind as they threw themselves out the door and onto the porch. From Wordnik.com. [Carnivores of Light and Darkness]
Among the various schools of contemporary literary criticism? which include the mephitic swamps of?? theory??. From Wordnik.com. [Sound and Sense] Reference
Well that mephitic odor is preferable to what I'm now inhaling from my seatmate's UFO (Unidentified Food Odor). From Wordnik.com. [Robert Rosenthal: Must Plane Food be Plain Food?] Reference
A tune emerged from the guitar, a low, ponderous, mephitic melody the like of which Sam had never heard before. From Wordnik.com. [With Friends Like These...]
The stove-devil glared at us through his one glazed eye, and puffed out his mephitic welcome as I shut the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
That these gentlemen are your cites for a refreshing breeze only highlights the mephitic miasma of the administration. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » In Defense of the Office of Legal Counsel:] Reference
There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
"Stinks like the Aghrapur stews in here," he muttered as his eyes tried to penetrate the mephitic gloom and reach Oyzhik. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Relentless]
And Lenny did not wholly escape from the mephitic portions of the motley elements from which his awakening mind drew its nurture. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
A stairway descending apparently to the bowels of the earth was disclosed, and from the sombre depths escaped a flow of damp, mephitic air. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
There, having for a short time inhaled the mephitic vapour, he felt as if he had received a sudden blow on the head, and sank down insensible. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
The water in the pool looks quite putrid, and when the wind comes from this quarter no wonder it is laden with fever germs and mephitic vapours. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
The whole atmosphere of trade was mephitic with chicane. From Wordnik.com. [Equality] Reference
You have evidence already of how such mephitic odour may act. From Wordnik.com. [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference
'Cause enough, I don't doubt, 'he said, and cited the mephitic letter. From Wordnik.com. [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference
American dream abduction; mephitic, poisonous, and ready for consumption. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion] Reference
My own nostrils were filled by a low fetid odour, mephitic and abominable. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Galley Impressions and Tales] Reference
It was no longer air, but a mephitic stench that choked us with disgusting fumes. From Wordnik.com. [The Crack of Doom] Reference
The caverns in mountains of gypsum often contain mephitic emanations and deleterious gases. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
Slimy and damp it was, with a mephitic smell and ugly pools of water settled in the ancient road-bed. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
Slowly, a strange mephitic vapor seemed to exhale into the room -- or was it my heightened imagination?. From Wordnik.com. [The War Terror] Reference
Morrison evokes America as a young, wild country where a fog, often slightly mephitic, envelopes the world. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
Thus would Vavasor's love-fits work themselves off -- declining from cold noon to a drizzly mephitic twilight. From Wordnik.com. [Weighed and Wanting] Reference
They were in the mephitic cellar, with the two long wooden platforms where the subterranean trains land or load their freights. From Wordnik.com. [A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus] Reference
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