The place, by the by, was very stuffy and oppressive, and the faint halitus of freshly shed blood was in the air. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
It dawned upon me to what end the puma and the other animals — which had now been brought with other luggage into the enclosure behind the house — were destined; and a curious faint odour, the halitus of something familiar, an odour that had been in the background of my consciousness hitherto, suddenly came forward into the forefront of my thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [The Island of Doctor Moreau] Reference
Casual men's shoes in anhima were runny fiddling bayard ago to be izmir to a halitus in coma of anterior rep. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
In his pagis hiatus conspicitur terræ, unde halitus lethalis exsurgens, quodcunque animal prope consistit, odore gravi consumit. From Wordnik.com. [A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.] Reference
Infpice: nefcio quid trepidat mihi pe&us, & sgris Faucibus exfuperat gravis halitus, infpice fodes Qui dicit medico « jufTus requtefcere, poftquam 90. From Wordnik.com. [A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ...] Reference
Salem denique ipse Beguinus siccum vocat & Terrestrem, qui tamen nec fusus Aquam, nec caustica vi ignem celare potest; ignis vero Violentia in halitus versus nec ab Aere se alienum esse demonstrat; Idem de Lacte, de Ovis, de semine Lini, de. From Wordnik.com. [The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject.] Reference
It dawned upon me to what end the puma and the other animalswhich had now been brought with other luggage into the enclosure behind the housewere destined; and a curious faint odour, the halitus of something familiar, an odour that had been in the background of my consciousness hitherto, suddenly came forward into the forefront of my thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [The Locked Door] Reference
It dawned upon me to what end the puma and the other animals -- which had now been brought with other luggage into the enclosure behind the house -- were destined; and a curious faint odour, the halitus of something familiar, an odour that had been in the background of my consciousness hitherto, suddenly came forward into the forefront of my thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [The Island of Doctor Moreau] Reference
Totaque natiuo moenia fonte sonant. frigidus aestiuas hinc temperat halitus auras. From Wordnik.com. [Rome] Reference
Tendere iter pennis: talis sese halitus atris. From Wordnik.com. [On the Sublime and Beautiful] Reference
Tendere iter pennis; talis sese halitus atris. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland]
Te sibilantis lenior halitus. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Remains, Volume 1] Reference
It comes from the Latin word "halitus," meaning "breath.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
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