How To Use Mephitic In A Sentence
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It was also, I learned, scrolling down, a hellhole manned by human ferrets, with overflowing toilets and mephitic smells that had tragically ruined the honeymoon of vox12populi and Iwantmyrum, who were now exacting revenge by describing their nightmarish experience on every message board they could find.
You Don't Say?
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The anvil chorus of the gnathonic media and their coprophagic gossip columnists soi-disant "journalists" whose conservative exudates have imbrued the age with their mephitic poison, one that might yet prove fatal to us all—may just this once be muted, there being little further to be gained from their unguinous ministrations.
Black day in July
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And, concerning that other fluid element of antiquity, he announced that atmospheric air is composed of two elastic fluids of different and opposite qualities, which he called mephitic air and highly respirable air.
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The anvil chorus of the gnathonic media and their coprophagic gossip columnists soi-disant "journalists" whose conservative exudates have imbrued the age with their mephitic poison, one that might yet prove fatal to us all—may just this once be muted, there being little further to be gained from their unguinous ministrations.
Black day in July
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Taxes will not significantly be cut, hospitals will not magically become cleaner, Afghanistan will still be an issue and the pall of political correctness will remain a mephitic stain on the mores of society. bert
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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The anvil chorus of the gnathonic media and their coprophagic gossip columnists soi-disant "journalists" whose conservative exudates have imbrued the age with their mephitic poison, one that might yet prove fatal to us all—may just this once be muted, there being little further to be gained from their unguinous ministrations.
Black day in July
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Black's student Daniel Rutherford called this gas mephitic air instead: mephitis is a noxious emission in legend, thought to emanate from the earth and cause pestilence.
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SEG Square's markets are crowded, loud, and mildly mephitic from cigarette smoke and the odor of fresh-baked electronics.
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When it comes to the power of a mephitic atmosphere on the training ground, the Germans showed the way forward.
Note to England's rugby players: embrace Der Aggro | Harry Pearson
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Unlike Clancy I did not bother to appear benign, but immediately indulged myself in displays of lost temper, which could not help but seem fulminous and even downright mephitic, coming from below as they did.
Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum
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The long curved counter glistens under the flare of the gas; the lines of gaudy bottles gleam like vulgar, sham jewelry; the glare, the glitter, the garish refulgence of the place dazzle the eye, and the sharp acrid whiffs of vile odour fall on the senses with a kind of mephitic influence.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour
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This also applies to other poison-theories, e.g. that the disease was due to rotten fish or to "mephitic" gases emanating from the soil.
Christiaan Eijkman - Nobel Lecture
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The anvil chorus of the gnathonic media and their coprophagic gossip columnists soi-disant "journalists" whose conservative exudates have imbrued the age with their mephitic poison, one that might yet prove fatal to us all—may just this once be muted, there being little further to be gained from their unguinous ministrations.
Archive 2007-07-01
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“On the day you see a single, midnight feather floating upon the mephitic winds of this your training base, then you will know it is time to open the secret box and read the secret message, and understand everything ... or mostly everything.”
Part the Eighth: The Meaning of Christmas « Unknowing
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As I delved into the brittle and mephitic pages, my skepticism dropped away like scales from my eyes.
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But why did all become so nasty in the last few years, so raucous, so mephitic?
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An unexpected opportunity of personally investigating a highly nauseous kind of mephitic vapor drew me and Jones suddenly hither without time to say farewell or make explanations.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860
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Or, as when surrounded by a mephitical fog, I have wished to have a volley of cannon fired, to clear the incumbered atmosphere, and give me room to breathe and move.
Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman
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A learned professor at UNB named David Murrell went after me today after a wag posted a message on the mephitic Canadian Coalition for Democracies site yesterday and forged my name to it.
Archive 2009-02-01
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The air was redolent of them, a mephitic stench that made Olly gag.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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The revelation gave a new frisson to such descriptions as that of Silas Wegg, stumping triumphantly over the mounds, his wooden leg puncturing the surface crust, leaving a trail of mephitic vapours behind him.
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And that question was not: Why would anyone want to spend months tramping around the mephitic, reptile-infested and politically dysfunctional northeast coast of South America?
From Guyana to Guiana
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Let us keep our fingers crossed and hope that the tide that is swirling about the buckled patent leather pumps of Mr. Speaker sweeps him and her away down the Thames like so much noxious mephitic effluent.
They Cannot Send All Of Us To The Gulag
