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an unwholesome atmosphere
the novel spun a miasma of death and decay -
unhealthy vapors rising from the ground or other sources
the miasma of the marshes
a miasma of cigar smoke
How To Use miasm In A Sentence
- We can see hints of miasma too, again in the backstory, in the death of Semele and her pointedly untended grave. Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality
- He looked up at me through a miasma of cigarette smoke.
- `Some of you gentlemen are lost in the pestiferous miasmas of the swamps of sin. GOODBYE CURATE
- Fertile soils and spontaneous vegetation, reeking with miasma and overpowering from their odour, we had exchanged for a drouthy wilderness of aloetic and cactaceous plants, where the kolquall and several thorn bushes grew paramount. How I Found Livingstone
- Through the open windows the heavy, damp night came miasmically floating in, the very cigarettes mildewed in my pockets. Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers
- “At the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945, the Americans set up a display table to show Nazi atrocities,” Denier Bud began miasmically as the camera panned over the familiar objects: “A lot of bogus items, tattooed skin supposedly taken off bodies, a supposedly human skin lampshade, which in reality is just a basic lampshade, but they really went over the edge of dumb when they put this on the table.” The Lampshade
- His eyes were wide, and Egewe sensed the hot miasma of emotions that the boy was emitting.
- A rough, dry wind which should sweep away the miasmas of the swamp, the misty staleness of the _Lieder, Liedchen, Liedlein_, as numerous as drops of rain in which inexhaustibly the Germanic _Gemüt_ is poured forth: the countless things like _Sehnsucht_ (Desire), _Heimweh_ (Homesickness), _Aufschwung_ Jean-Christophe, Volume I
- Today's the day for refuse collection where I live, and the miasma of smells and stench from the bins was like wading through a marsh this morning.
- The vertiginous traumas of meat and marking often generate spectacular results, like the miasmatic language of Beatrice in The Cenci, or the prosopopeia of Swellfoot the Tyrant. _Queen Mab_ as Topological Repertoire