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1
Evidently the author had himself breathed the
mephitic
air
of eighteenth-century skepticism.
2
Lewis got half way down when a rank waft of acrid and
mephitic
air
met him and half-choked him.
3
Masses of the population are allowed to live crowded together in unwholesome dens, half poisoned by the
mephitic
air
of the neighbourhood.
4
These latter, so environed, would be in a condition too like that of a candle in the
mephitic
air
of a vault.
5
And the effects of this
mephitic
air
may prove more durable than the contribution of its creators to the political reorganization of Europe.
6
The wreck was removed from the skylight, and under the water, in that dense chamber, stagnant with
mephitic
air
,
the bruised, stupefied hong was found.
7
The heat in this wretched hole was stifling, and one breathed a
mephitic
air
which would have given cholera, if cholera had then been invented!
8
He threw out phlogiston and
mephitic
airs
.
mephitic
air
mephitic