Another minute, and a door opens into a long, sombre-looking room, redolent of the fumes of whiskey and tobacco.
Hogsheads of bad whiskey have been drunk in "Rogues' Retreat;" it reeks with the fumes of uncounted cigars; it has been the scene of untold villanies.
The walls wear a dingy air; the fumes of soapsuds and stewed onions offend the senses.
The sulphur fumes still lingered in the hollow tree, and scores of bees had fallen stupefied among the roots.
He peeped into the hollow of the tree, and through the blue fumes of the burning sulphur he saw the snake's thick black body with its brown geometrical markings gliding and twisting round the exposed roots.
Meanwhile it had grown unbearably hot, the sparkling river looked like a blaze of fire, and the fumes of the wine were getting into their heads.
The ventilators were built high, chimneys that carried the fumes well up into the night air, where their diffusion was assured, leaving them robbed of their deadly poison.
He was fearful lest the heavy escaping fumes should reach those beyond.
His mask held him impervious to the deadly fumes of the oozing sap, but well enough he knew that, in such a presence, it was only that ingenious contrivance that stood between him and swift death.
The heavy fumes of Adresol were creeping through the woods about him.
When on the morning of 25th September an eddy blew back the gasfumes upon the Borderers, some of the gasping, choking men were not ready to advance.
What had really happened was that the heavy fumes from our shells had driven the gunners out of their casemates.
Men went sick and giddy a thousand yards behind the line, and even the grass and trees grew white as the fumes passed over them.
The first shells that hit the German position raised huge clouds of smoke and dust, and nothing could be seen but the green fumes of lyddite and the spouting columns of red earth.
We returned for a last look at Halemaumau, but the smoke was so dense, and the sulphur fumes so stifling, that, as in a fearful dream, we only heard the thunder of its hidden surges.
About seven feet back from the edge of the ledge, there was a fissure about eighteen inches wide, emitting heavy fumes of sulphurous acid gas.
We felt the pungency of sulphurous fumes in the still night air.
Don Juan felt something like shame that he must be brought thus to his father's bedside, wearing a courtesan's bouquet, redolent of the fragrance of the banqueting-chamber and the fumes of wine.
The loafer is smoking a short clay pipe, and some of the fumes of the tobacco come between the wind and the bourgeois' respectability.
The place was positively reeking with the smell of both, not to mention the fumes of tobacco.
The blacksmith loves the smoke of the forge and the fumes of hot iron on the anvil, and the chiseller's fingers burn to handle the tools that are strewn on the wooden bench.
The workshop was pervaded by a smell of wax and pitch, mingled with the curious indefinable odour exhaled from steel tools in constant use, and supplemented by the fumes of Marzio's pipe.
One of the hungry dogs outside, rendered desperate by the delicious fumes that issued from the hut, took heart, dashed in, caught up a mass of blubber, and attempted to make off.
You cannot expect any genteel person to call upon us here, to be suffocated with the fumes of your nasty shop and warehouse.
Me but too sore the sable fumes molest, Which hither form the hellish fires ascend.
For pain which fits my sin, dark fumes now stain My cheek, and with salt rheum mine eyes o'erflow.
I, after, learned that it was built by sprite Whom potent fumes had raised and sorcery: Who on this rock its towers of steel did fix, Case-hardened in the stream and fire of Styx.
She had a widowed father who was unpleasant and who sometimes beat her on Saturday nights, and on Sunday mornings sometimes, if the fumes of the Cock and Hens still hung about him, threw things at her before she went to church.
This may be done by washing the underclothing in a disinfecting fluid, and then exposing them to a free current of air, and by subjecting the outer clothing to a very high temperature in an oven or to the fumes of burning sulphur.
I should not feel confident as to the thorough disinfection by sulphurous acid of the hold of an infected ship unless the fumes had been applied for sixty hours.
A very good idea of the direction taken by the incoming air can also be obtained by the use of fumes of nascent muriate of ammonia, as above described.
In spite of recent scepticism regarding the value of the fumes of sulphurous acid as a germicide and disinfectant, I do not hesitate to express, after long experience, my firm conviction as to their efficacy.
She looked like a young priestess still dazed by the fumes of the cavern.
The one tasted to him like gall, and the fumes of the other were powerless to allay his growing trepidation, and yet, in desperate adventure, he stayed on.
Its atmosphere was thick with the smoke of tobacco and the fumes of hot whisky, in which Saul and his host had been indulging.
When she left, I did the same thing, and the fumes of liquor came in my face.
One sheriff, finding that the fumes of cigarette- smoking made her ill, treated all her follow-inmates to the little white cylinders, and set them at work puffing vigorously.
There were some cigarette, smokers in the jail and the fumes came in my cell, for I had nothing but an open barred door.
To prevent the possibility of this occurrence, I took a quantity of tobacco, and placing it upon a board nailed horizontally within the trunk, I lighted it and allowed it to burn slowly, that the fumes might fill the cavity.
The effect of the tobacco fumes almost alarmed me.
Mr. Severne, who was much pleased at this opportune illness, could not restrain his humor, and said it was a disorder produced by the fumes of gas.
But as the fumes wore off, and Severne realized his villainy, his defeat, and his abject condition between the two women he had wronged, he suddenly uttered a yell and made a spring at the window.
Thy neighbour has removed his wretched store, Few hands will rid the lumber of the poor; Thy own third story smokes, while thou, supine, Art drenched in fumes of undigested wine.
It is the more volatile, sulphurous fumesof this oil which ascend as an onion is cut that cause the eyes to water, just as sulphur fumes do anywhere.
From such a scene as I am going to ask you to witness, thousands who crowd a theatre nightly to see a woman's head battered out against a sofa, or a young man suffocate himself with the fumes of charcoal, would shrink back in disgust.
The fumes of the misery I have passed through the last two months have got into my head and made me talk wildly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fumes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ash; exhaust; fume; reek
