How To Use Miasma In A Sentence
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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
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He looked up at me through a miasma of cigarette smoke.
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`Some of you gentlemen are lost in the pestiferous miasmas of the swamps of sin.
GOODBYE CURATE
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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
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His eyes were wide, and Egewe sensed the hot miasma of emotions that the boy was emitting.
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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
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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.
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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
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A miasma of middle class angst simultaneously stings granny and granddaughter into revenge against Annie at the same time it is paralysing their victim.
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Again, exposition; but a key thing to consider: the Greek concept of miasma is at play here.
More on Prologues
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The world kept breaking up into a miasma of red dots and smeared vision.
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The smell of vomit rose from her like a miasma, but he crushed his impulse to turn away.
THE THORN BIRDS
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Later nineteenth-century public health, in contrast, initially based on miasmatic, then zymotic theories of disease emphasized broad based environmental rather than moral reform.
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Actually I think there is scope here for investigating nomology as a non-scientific sense of possibility, investigating the way beliefs in Natural, Social or Divine order might also have functioned (and might still do) to construct "laws of reality" -- looking at the ancient concept of "miasma" as a breaching of those laws, for example, and a breaching that is integral to the narratives of Greek Tragedy.
A Follow Up
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Moreover, as for the avoidance and confirmation thereof, the plenipotentiaries have furthermore resolved that the 'pothecaries are concocting a certain miasma, by which decree we men are to be kept within salutary boundaries.
The Day of Wrath
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Forgot birthdays, mealtimes, hair appointments, anniversaries, all in a miasma of other-worldly hankering.
BEHINDLINGS
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I find the best way to address this miasma is with a high-end programmable universal remote.
Controlling the Living Room - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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a miasma of cigar smoke
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Epidemic fevers were still at - tributed variously to filth, the night air, "miasmas" and the wrath of God.
Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ]
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All those remote-control toys bought for tweeners get played with for an hour or two and then get sunk into the miasma of a child's bedroom.
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In addition, the agricultural protectionism of the European Union, ossified in the economic miasma of the Common Agricultural Policy, needs to be scrapped.
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The two of them now a superstitious swamp devil, humming, hovering, and plowing through the miasma.
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Virchow entered medicine in the early 1840s, when nearly every disease was attributed to the workings of some invisible force: miasmas, neuroses, bad humors, and hysterias.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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But as the controversy continues to mesmerize and roil the cyber miasma, I have come to another conclusion that I believe is worth tossing into the cauldron apologies for mixing my metaphors.
Dr. Jim Taylor: Tiger Mom Is A Scaredy Cat
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Lyrically and musically, the album's tone of entropy does more to underscore the miasma of dread most people feel under the current political conditions than it does to rebel significantly against it.
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If it is due to stable miasma, uremic poisoning, pyemia, influenza, rheumatism, toxic agents, etc., they should receive prompt attention for their removal or mitigation.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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The Indian issue, Jenkins writes, led him into ‘a miasma of impotent isolation.’
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A miasma of pollution hung in the air above Mexico City.
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Micael Ewans, The Everyman Library, 1996), miasma is defined as: "Pollution; the word embraces both literal dirt and what we would call psychic pollution incurred by breaches of taboo, e.e. bloodshed.
The Stain of Sin
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A miasma of stale alcohol hung around him.
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November 19th, 2005 at 8: 53 pm sex says: darting! near Imbrium abstruseness miasma snobbish swapping
Think Progress » Cheney resignation
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The hypnotic miasma of names, institutions, corporations and locations that envelop each drawing demonstrates nothing if not the inherent - the intentional - unknowability of each of these networks.
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As time went on, his ambition to be part of the US Supreme Court faded in a miasma of alcohol and despair.
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For Dedalus, as for James Joyce, Irish history was an ineluctable, disabling miasma of piety, nationalism and superstition.
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One seems shut inside a shell of sickness, a miasma of illness.
ON CATS
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The man behind him rode up beside him and leaned close, a miasma rising around Abasio like that of an untended privy.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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These are some of the facts and circumstances which have induced me to abandon the miasmatic hypothesis; for, whatever this febrific agent may be, if different from the appreciable states of the atmosphere and the earth's surface, it cannot be traced, as I think I have conclusively shown, by the presence of those conditions of moisture, heat, and vegetation, which are claimed as indispensable for its production.
An Address before the Medical Society of North Carolina, at Its Second Annual Meeting, in Raleigh, May 1851, by Charles E. Johnson, M.D.
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He looked up at me through a miasma of cigarette smoke.
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Forgot birthdays, mealtimes, hair appointments, anniversaries, all in a miasma of other-worldly hankering.
BEHINDLINGS
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Walling is both star and morphing other, warping breathy harmonies and siren miasmas into elegant cyborg operas.
Gazelle Twin: The Entire City – review
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Before Pasteur, dreadful smells and miasmas ruled the roost, the only accepted causes of illness, while after Pasteur, disease was all down to germs.
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The councillors pointed out everyone knew cholera was due to miasma, the rising of bad smells from the foetid surrounds.
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All of them sensed the palpable miasma of evil which clung to its tunnels, though some were more sensitive to it than others.
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The palace in the end became a miasma of schemes, intrigues, paranoia and backstabbing.
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The unmistakable, overwhelming miasma of emotion that choked him and even threatened to stifle Rena too… it was guilt.
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George Morison mentioned it once in passing, but without evoking the slightest interest among the others, who had been content to dwell on miasmatic fumes emanating from the rank isthmian landscape.
The Path Between the Seas
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A miasma of lunchtime kick-offs, the bete noir of all serious football fans, will now determine who is promoted to the Premier League and who will make the play-offs.
Endless sprawl of fixtures fills cups with thin gruel and a bad taste | Paul Hayward
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He looked up at me through a miasma of cigarette smoke.
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To sweep away all the old miasmal myth and remould history right from the beginning.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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Instead it appeared, at least to some Americans, as if the promise of the United Nations had collapsed in a miasma of bureaucratic inertia and rhetorical posturing.
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He looked up at me through a miasma of cigarette smoke.
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The tension is as palpable as the waft of gohrmeh-sabzi and kabab emanating from the kitchen, tinged with the miasma of cologne and perfume hanging in the air, thanks to immoderate uncles and aunts.
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Gemiasmas produce ague, it is by no means proved that no other cryptogam may not produce malaria.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
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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.
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It would be so easy to write the article off as the ramblings of a gynophobic choad, but loath as I am to admit it, there is a faint miasma of truth hovering in that tumid swamp.
Frankie Thomas: Enter the Contest to Make Christopher Hitchens Laugh!
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I mean, in the end, remedies will adapt and be found for that purpose, and you seem to create a miasma of difficulty which it is the business of courts to cure if there is a constitutional or statutory offence.
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The retail plant industry is too large and lucrative to allow us plantspeople to languish in a miasma of monochrome, although of course it is perfectly possible to have a simply wonderful garden just by using all-green plants.
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the miasma of the marshes
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He looked up at me through a miasma of cigarette smoke.
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Lyrically and musically, the album's tone of entropy does more to underscore the miasma of dread most people feel under the current political conditions than it does to rebel significantly against it.
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They exploit the exigencies of war to sound like clergymen, seizing religious language to veil partisan public policies in a miasma of ersatz godliness.
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I'm not one of those paranoid moderns who thinks the world is covered in an invisible miasma of writhing disease; I know it is.
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The trouble is, the whole issue is shrouded in a miasma of mistrust.
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Second, in some regions which would seem to be malarial, that is, where the miasmatic mists arise, no malaria occurs.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
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Though human life was not regarded as sacred in antiquity, the Greeks judged murder to be an act of impiety, since it offended the gods and caused miasma or pollution.
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Inside the doors of the Special Division building they were marched straight down a flight of stairs into a miasma of human misery.
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Taking a breather from our Gulf Coast miasma in order to focus on an even ghastlier blight of cultural crude washing up on American shores.
Will Durst: Vampire Nation
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Each new smell cue would simply add to the miasma of conflicting odours, and people were often seen fleeing the theatre, holding their noses.
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But to be honest those games are mostly a miasma of hazy impressions.
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A miasma rose from the marsh.
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the novel spun a miasma of death and decay
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The inquiry itself embodied a pivotal shift in scientific paradigms of disease causation from miasmatic or filth-based models to the germ theory.
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As I sank into a miasma of guilt, I began to wrestle with the question: Why?
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New providers will inevitably be forced to share in the miasma of regulations and taxes that provide its current arbitrage advantage.
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The smell of vomit rose from her like a miasma, but he crushed his impulse to turn away.
THE THORN BIRDS
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Through the murmurous miasma, he said, `This is an exercise in empty masochism.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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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
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It was believed that air housed cholera and other diseases and that it could directly affect the organism, through its “miasmas.”
Did You Know? Three thousand people died in 1833 Guadalajara cholera epidemic
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To sweep away all the old miasmal myth and remould history right from the beginning.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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Unable to identify any hits in the miasma, the label shelved it.
PopMatters
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The MSM is a miasma of irresponsible, ideological improvisations, especially these days.
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Traditional Western medicine was also considered true for centuries, and was also wrong, based as it was on humours, miasmas and 'cures' like bleeding.
Ancient is not the same as sensible
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In addition, the agricultural protectionism of the European Union, ossified in the economic miasma of the Common Agricultural Policy, needs to be scrapped.
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Forgot birthdays, mealtimes, hair appointments, anniversaries, all in a miasma of other-worldly hankering.
BEHINDLINGS
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But his later years have been a miasma of money troubles, marital strife and ill health.
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Under the first head, I shall make a few pertinent extracts from different authors, to show the sense in which the word miasm or miasmata is used, and what is understood by them to be the source of this febrific agent.
An Address before the Medical Society of North Carolina, at Its Second Annual Meeting, in Raleigh, May 1851, by Charles E. Johnson, M.D.
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Through the murmurous miasma, he said, `This is an exercise in empty masochism.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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A miasma of pollution hung in the air above Mexico City.
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Everything else is a miasma of vague promises and guarantees.
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The trunk of Oak at Field's Edge is broad, solid and tactile, but the lower branches are shadows, and the leaves and shrubbery dissolve into a green miasma.
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I have no doubt that the revolting miasma of slimebags like limbaugh ,hannity,colter,oreilly and other assorted right wing hate mongers will both love this and justify this.
Video of Police Beating Released in Washington State - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
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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.
GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features
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A miasma of pollution hung in the air above Mexico City.
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After all, who hasn't found themselves in the middle of a favourite movie only to catch a whiff of some foul miasma making its way merrily up your nostrils?
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The dizzying stench of the six-foot-high city-block-long banks of spilth, a foul miasma of garbage, excrement, and animal parts—and the maddening hum of a million blowflies. . .
The Curse of the Wendigo
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Where is the obligatory miasma of old industry and dirty weather, you wonder; the thunderheads stripped of silver linings?
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Physicians attributed the primary cause of disease to miasmas emanating from sewage, cesspools, or rotting vegetable matter.
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It is impossible to have such an awful sewer of iniquity sending up its miasma, which is wafted by the winds north, south, east, and west, without the whole land being affected by it.
The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony
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With musical accompaniment from the Conqueror Wyrms and the Plasma Miasma.
Boing Boing: March 6, 2005 - March 12, 2005 Archives
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The man behind him rode up beside him and leaned close, a miasma rising around Abasio like that of an untended privy.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Flashbacks, dream sequences and supernatural intervention merge into a miasma of disjointed, tricksy effects.
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But in the last series, it was enveloped in a miasma of nastiness.
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The dank miasma of the marsh, clung with a mucid dullness round my frame.
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As time went on, his ambition to be part of the US Supreme Court faded in a miasma of alcohol and despair.
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The sun was overcast by clouds, and the air was spring-like, but the miasma of the swamps added a sour, heavy scent.
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Go quickly, the shortest route: keep the dirt clouds and miasmas out.
Gail Godwin's 'Solo Notes' Journal: Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature
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But in the last series, it was enveloped in a miasma of nastiness.
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The two of them now a superstitious swamp devil, humming, hovering, and plowing through miasma.
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A miasma of pollution hung in the air above Mexico City.
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Forgot birthdays, mealtimes, hair appointments, anniversaries, all in a miasma of other-worldly hankering.
BEHINDLINGS
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Through the murmurous miasma, he said, `This is an exercise in empty masochism.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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Karten and Keith emerged through the balcony door, just behind him, along with a miasma of strong Sullaneen tobacco.
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One seems shut inside a shell of sickness, a miasma of illness.
ON CATS
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A sickly brown miasma eddied about his feet as he stepped around the bodies.
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The man behind him rode up beside him and leaned close, a miasma rising around Abasio like that of an untended privy.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Closer, and I caught the sharp smell hanging over the general miasma: the stink of fresh urine.
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Rather, it was to be realized right within the miasma of cultural constraint, indeed there or nowhere, like the Zen lotus sprouting up unblemished from the mud.
Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites
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The pit swirled down into oblivion, a thick, cloying miasma threatening to devour him if he drew too close to it.
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Although the effectiveness of his campaign remains to be seen, it has shone like a beacon of virtue through the miasma of greed that characterizes corrupt politicians and state officials.