Like the strange happenings of not so long ago, a hatred was now rising out of life, like a miasma out of the ground.
A dangerous moisture and miasma arises from houses built upon such an unhealthy foundation.
The Parochial District Medical Officer said:-- "The houses are so old that the air is really poisonous; it is full of miasma and dirt .
I knew what it was that hung like a miasma over that house.
The atmosphere is saturated with miasma and infected with myriads of poisonous insects.
Orchids love warmth and moisture, and warmth and moisture in tropical countries are synonymous with miasma and fever.
A few yards away the water was lost in the dense steaming miasma that hemmed them in on all sides.
Once more he was sinking into soft oblivion, the while a horrid miasma assailed his nostrils.
How his voice clears away all the miasma of my miserable thoughts!
They are like fresh, sweet breezes glowing through the miasmaof life in the trenches.
Accustomed as many of them were to high lying lands free of trees, the miasma from the swamps was well nigh as fatal to them as it would be to Europeans.
It was a double poled tent, some ten feet square, and there was a waterproof sheet large enough to cover the whole of the interior, thus preventing the miasma from arising from the ground within it.
A moment's darkness,--then the miasma which covers the lake of blood resumes its transparency, and another spectre is revealed.
Man, as we have said and shown, breathes with comparative impunity an atmosphere laden with the infectious miasma of this typhus.
The air seems to us pure and wholesome, yet it conceals a typhic miasma of the most deadly kind; it carries this pernicious principle into the richest meadows, where we see feeding flocks and herds which to us seem exuberant with health.
People sometimes inquire whether the ox-typhus can be communicated to other animals, and even to man, either by contact, by direct absorption, or by inhaling the miasma floating in the atmosphere.
Then, indeed, if the typhic miasma come to mix and blend with the choleraic miasma, all living beings will have to contend with the most deleterious causes of alterations in their health, and we may (God send it be otherwise!
This typhic miasma is absorbed and engendered by the ox, under the influence of a number of special deleterious causes.
The typhus of the ox is a disease essentially infectious, which is produced by the absorption of the morbigenous miasma in the air.
Freed from the miasma of that presence, Mary remained motionless for a long minute, then sighed from her tortured heart.
Always, this mysterious, invisible, yet horribly potent, power of sin was like a miasma throughout the prison.
The air is mountain-air, minus the aroma and stimulus of evergreen forests, and plus the miasma of miles of marsh and peat-land and the foulnesses of the city exhalations.
Miasma is not always produced by a luxuriant vegetation with an ardent climate; for many parts of Brazil, even where there are marshes and a rank vegetation, are much more healthy than this sterile coast of Peru.
The attacks of illness which arise from miasma never fail to appear most mysterious.
Is this owing to the state of the body during sleep, or to a greater abundance of miasma at such times?
Footnote 1: Notwithstanding this general condition, fevers of a very serious kind have been occasionally known to attack persons on the coast, who had never exposed themselves to the miasma of the jungle.
See also the able memoir: Del Miasma vegetale e delle Malattis Miasmatiche of Dr D.
Pantaleoni, Del miasma vegetale e delle Malattie Miasmatiche, in which the views of Salvagnoli on this point are combated.
Beneath the gloom indistinct figures seemed to glide,--the personation of the miasmathat made the place so fatal to human life.
At the door he turned back and said,-- "I should not advise the lady to sleep here; the miasma from the forest is very fatal to such as are not used to it.
Under all the circumstances of such a combination of putrid animal and vegetable substance, of mineral adulteration, and of the miasma naturally arising from the almost sudden exposure of an immense residuum of slime, &c.
Then he runs into all this miasma of suicide rumors, and promptly shrugs the whole thing off.
The gorilla appears to be an indigenous product which does not bear transplanting; he thrives only in a low, hot and humid region, infested by malaria, miasma and fevers.
I believe that one of these apes could be kept in good condition for any length of time if he were supplied with a normal humidity in an atmosphere laden with miasma and allowed to vary in temperature.
We have already noticed the fact that the gorilla is confined by nature to a low, humid region, reeking with miasma and the effluvia of decaying vegetation.
The last vapors of London, the torpid miasma of the packed streets, the cabbage odors of Camden Town, were blown afar; he drew deep breaths of the delicious air.
For if the oxidizable miasma are destroyed by atmospheric ozone, they, in turn, cause the latter to disappear, and we have seen that it is itself a miasm.
It is possible, and even probable, that sometimes, in particular localities, there may not be a just relation between the ozone and the oxidizable miasma in the air, and that the latter cannot be completely destroyed.
It matters not that the spirit of the contract may have evaporated amidst the miasma of luxury.
There his health suffered considerably, not only from the miasma of the marshes of the river Saône, but also from family anxieties and arduous literary toils.
We could understand the fetid miasma that made the Great Dismal Swamp an unknowable country.
