Meanings of noxious vapours in English

Hot air, and noxious vapours, and steam, and smoke came rushing up.

The dust on his desk becomes a powder that gives off noxious vapours.

The air was oppressive, and seemed charged with noxious vapours.

May not the same be the case with noxious vapours?

There are in London kitchens equally dismal though not quite so much exposed to damp and noxious vapours.

The author describes... old graveyards of London... before they were all shut... noxious vapours... visible to the naked eye...'

Built in 1858, its function was to safely disperse the noxious vapours generated at a lead works in the valley below.

It is like water which first putrefies by stagnation, and then sends up noxious vapours and fills the atmosphere with death.

Still, things were so bad by 1876 that the Conservative government of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli appointed the Royal Commission on Noxious Vapours.

"Come nearer to them," said the Angel, snatching me downwards in the veil through the noxious vapours rising from the city.