Significados de mephitic vapours em inglês

Conceive yourself confronted by a pop-gun, some ten feet in diameter, charged with mephitic vapours and plugged with microbes of typhoid fever.

Yet, to a people unacquainted with physics, waters imbued with mineral properties, or exhaling mephitic vapours, may well appear possessed of a something preternatural.

Mephitic vapours-spontaneouscombustion-pressureof gases born of long decay-any one of numberless phenomena might be responsible.

"The air doesn't smell bad," he remarked; "close and musty, but no mephitic vapours.