During the rains the natives suffer much, their mud huts, without foundations, settling about them, and the miasmic vapours of the over-populated village causing a yearly epidemic of cholera.
It is towards five o'clock in the afternoon, when the miasmic mist that rises daily at this hour, and only lifts the following morning at nine o'clock, that the Maidan is seen to perfection.
He had not felt equably well since the night of Gabriel's burial in the miasmic air of the mountain.
Farrell uncased his beloved accordion, but could not bear the sound of it; he tried his sketch-book, and could summon to mind no better subjects than drab miasmic bogs and steaming mudflats.
Farrell followed him reluctantly outside into a miasmic desolation more depressing than he could have imagined.
All were splendidly mounted on horses inured to the miasmic climate, "led" animals carrying their necessary equipment.
For the next three days all hands were kept hard at work, in spite of the blazing sunshine by day and the miasmic mists by night.
At daybreak the work of transhipping the cargo was proceeded with before the miasmic mists that hid the shore had dispersed.
With their ears strained to catch the faintest suspicious sound, they struggled into their light cotton garments, that at the best of times were ill-adapted to the miasmic night-mists of the East African coast.
Occasionally patches of vapour drifted across their path, but generally speaking the miasmic belt ended at a distance of about half a mile from the sea.
Our chief danger is, I fancy, the chance of getting miasmic fever, especially after landing in saturated togs.
Heading northward again, we were soon once more among the swamps, the forests thinning off and giving place to a low-lying country, just the steaming hot, miasmic soil for sugar.
But whether all this is so because the lake is drained and the Shetland pony of a young Vere browses over the green pasture that was once a miasmic swamp; or whether it is so for more subtle, wilder reasons, no one can say.
You have spoken of miasmic mists that hung below the level of the tree-tops.
In this case, no doubt the exact repetition of the physical sensations of miasmic poisoning tended to reproduce in your mind the same sequence of ideas or semi-delirious imaginings.
A sickening miasmic odour rose from the low flat country sloping off toward the Adriatic--the smell of overripe fruit, of decaying vegetation, of the harvest grown old.
Drusus liked the prospect of a halt on these swampy, miasmic fields little enough, But again the proconsul was all resources.
A miasmic odor of damp decay seemed to increase in strength the further below the earth's surface he progressed.
An air of desolation seemed to hang above the scene like the miasmic vapors from some foul swamp.
He had come into a marsh of miasmic mist lit up by pale fires that were not of heaven and where dreadful presences thronged the purple gloom.
A miasmic mist had crept into the noble spaces of the aisles.
