From the rear of the ravine in which we lay, billows of dark mephitic mist were rolling forward, surrounding us with their baleful influence.
Has a mephitic odor been changed to a sweet savor by the subtle alchemy of the musical composer?
During a tremendous earthquake which destroyed a great part of St. Domingo, innumerable fissures were caused throughout the island, from which mephitic vapors emanated and produced an epidemic.
It seems also clear that Avernus, a circular lake near Puzzuoli, about half a mile in diameter, which is now a salubrious and cheerful spot, once exhaled mephitic vapors, such as are often emitted by craters after eruptions.
And Lenny did not wholly escape from the mephitic portions of the motley elements from which his awakening mind drew its nurture.
At twilight we see thin airy spectral insects, all wing and nippers, hovering, as if they could never pause, over some sullen mephitic pool.
Its presence may, at all times, be detected, by letting down a lighted candle, suspended from a string, into the places suspected of containing this mephitic air.
Here perished the elder Pliny, suffocated by the mephitic vapors of the eruption.
I directed wine to be administered freely; a blister to be applied to her back; the pediluvium to be used several times in the day; and mephitic air to be injected under the form of a clyster every two hours.
If the laxative quality of such liquors be thought an objection to the use of them, wines of a greater age may be given, impregnated with mephitic air, by a simple but ingenious contrivance of my friend Dr.
Two similar instances of the salutary effects of mephitic air, thus administered, have occurred also in my own practice, the history of which I shall briefly lay before the reader.
Fixed air, under the form of clysters, was injected every second or third hour; and directions were given to supply the patient plentifully with water, artificially impregnated with mephitic air.
A number of air-bubbles were separated, but probably not of the mephitic kind, for no precipitation ensued in the lime water.
The injection of mephitic air into the intestines, under these circumstances, bids fair to be highly serviceable.
I have not yet been so fortunate in any one case, as to effect a cure; although the use of mephitic air has been accompanied with proper internal medicines.
As a last, but almost hopeless, effort, I advised the injection of clysters of mephitic air.
Mephitic vapors rise from its waters, so that no life is found on its banks, and no birds fly over it.
It has been said that the lower animals which perish in our midst must perforce send thousands of pounds of mephitic vapour daily into the air, if left unburnt.
He describes several corridors radiating in different directions through the hillside, forming a sort of labyrinth in which his party almost lost themselves, and in which they were finally checked by the presence of mephitic vapours.
Panton, whom the exposure to the mephitic gases had left irritable and strange.
Had he inhaled some mephitic gas which had overcome him?
My boys wished to have the opening enlarged and to enter immediately, but this I strictly forbade; for, as I leaned forward to examine it through the opening, a rush of mephitic air gave me a sort of vertigo.
We remembered your lessons, father, and made some experiments to discover if it contained mephitic air.
M159) We cannot doubt that Hierapolis owed its reputation as a holy city in great part to its hot springs and mephitic vapours.
Thick masses ofmephitic vapour, visible a hundred yards off, float in rapid undulations on its surface.
The caverns in mountains of gypsum often contain mephitic emanations and deleterious gases.
They become there the more productive, as the lands, newly cleared and surrounded by forests, are in contact with an atmosphere damp, stagnant, and loaded with mephitic exhalations.
The second grotto was lower and more gloomy than the first; the air that could only enter by the newly formed opening had the mephitic smell Dantes was surprised not to find in the outer cavern.
The bolt of a massive door creaked, and they entered a mephitic in-pace, where the dim light revealed between rings fastened to the wall a bloodstained rack, a brazier, and a jug.
Many lay where they had fallen, while their comrades, absolutely helpless against this diabolical agency, rushed madly out of the mephitic mist and made for the rear, overrunning the lines of trenches behind them.
The mephitic cloud passed slowly over, but every man who was not dead was stupefied.
A close mephitic stench, impeding respiration, arose from the saline exhalations of the stagnant lake.
The very soil of Greece, broken up and diversified by so many inequalities, stamped with volcanic features, profuse in streams and mephitic fountains, contributed to render the feeling of local divinity prevalent and intense.
Yet, to a people unacquainted with physics, waters imbued with mineral properties, or exhaling mephitic vapours, may well appear possessed of a something preternatural.
