| 单词 | effluvium |
| 例句 | The gutters filled with rust-colored pine needles and the pungent effluvium of alder leaves, and the drainpipes splashed with winter rain. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Yes, shadowy: a myth, a phantom: something which they engendered and created whole themselves; some effluvium of Sutpen blood and character, as though as a man he did not exist at all. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z It doesn’t mind if you leave it tied to a chair for three days sitting in its own effluvium with an iron rail strapped upright against its spine so it can’t lean back. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z A quack doctor pitched patent medicines from the back of a wagon: “A rare cordial to fortify the innards against infective parasites, unwholesome damps, and malignant effluvia!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Others will regard such stuff as nothing more than what one character in Gob's Grief calls "noxious effluvia". Gob's Grief by Chris Adrian – review 2013-01-31T08:01:01Z Photograph: Alamy The duo added sympathetic characters to all the effluvia. Movie 43: a gross-out workout 2013-01-18T15:00:00Z Nowhere to be seen were the effluvia of discarded plastic bags, bottles, wrappers and other detritus that, along with polluted water, have become the hallmarks of most other Asian rivers and lakes. In Far-Flung Myanmar, a Land of Contradictions 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z In Bunhill Fields, labourers are reported to have died from breathing the rank effluvia of the plague pit. The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins – review 2013-01-12T09:31:00Z The movie cannibalizes the effluvia of pop culture with a gleeful skein of movie references recent and classic, including “The Shining,” “Big,” “Reservoir Dogs,” “It’s a Wonderful Life,” and “Die Hard.” “The Night Before” and Seth Rogen’s Ethical Comedy 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z There are towels there, and kitty litter, to absorb various effluvia, because this is a meeting where people show up routinely in pretty bad shape. I am cuckoo, but hope is coming 2012-12-12T21:01:00Z It seems only natural that a parent, on hauling the last box of his child’s shinguards and Harry Potter effluvia into the unsupervised blankness of a dorm room, may fear the advent of pumpkin irresponsibility. The Eternal Struggle of the Empty Nester 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z That theme became a burden, reduced to a cacophony of “I Love the ’90s” effluvia, but “Hindsight” invigorates it in promising, unflashy ways. ‘Hindsight’ Is a New VH1 Series 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z That’s a testament to the enduring power of activist media, even in an era when it often seems impossible to attract attention to serious issues amid the rising tide of meaningless effluvia. The SeaWorld sea change: Will the marine park’s about-face signal a shift in how we think about animal captivity? 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z “The Night Before” depicts pop-cultural effluvia as a defining force of social identification and personal experience, and contrasts it with the sentimental but flimsy commitment to the rites and doctrines of organized religion. “The Night Before” and Seth Rogen’s Ethical Comedy 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Instead we see mostly effluvia of gorgeous color that bring to mind the painterly strategies of Abstract Expressionists like Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still and countless followers. Art Review: An Artful Environmental Impact Statement 2011-01-13T22:44:37Z Considering that these micro battlebots are made of industrial effluvia, they are remarkably coherent and pointed. Rammellzee, From Living Letters to Living Sculpture 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Parents lose whole days — months! decades! — to monitoring the moods and effluvia of their offspring. Memo to Parents: Back Off, and Children Learn More 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Note the drain in the floor: By intermission, stagehands will be hosing away the blood and effluvia. Review | There will be blood in the STC’s gross-out ‘Richard the Third’ 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Microbes and larger creatures were found supping the noxious super-heated effluvia of volcanic vent systems, kilometers down in the world’s oceans. Sputnik’s spawn: How the Cold War created astrobiology 2014-03-09T17:30:00Z Many Wallingford houses were built to avoid the hellish view of tower effluvia. How Gas Works' belching hellscape turned into a postindustrial paradise 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z So, here we are, again, faced with that essential Trump question: Is he delusional, believing the effluvia that runs from his brain to his mouth without braking? Opinion | What did Trump know? The Jan. 6 committee has the answer. 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z In other cases, telogen effluvium may be a sign of an ongoing health issue, like a thyroid problem or autoimmune disorder, Green said. What to do if you’re experiencing hair loss after COVID-19 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Today's equivalent might be a sewer worker - but rather than scrabbling through effluvia for scrap metal they go underground for maintenance, such as the grim job of clearing fatbergs. London's callings: Odd, obsolete and old jobs in the capital 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z What White men choose to disregard comes to bear the taint of effluvium. Perspective | Identifying danger in the Rittenhouse case 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z But she also makes you fear for Alexia, who can outrun the authorities but can’t escape the agonizing contortions and messy alien effluvia of her own body. Review: Outré sex and violence aside, Cannes-winning 'Titane' is a surprisingly sweet love story 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z In the new world, now free of liturgy and magic, “the balsamic effluvia of springtime meadows,” writes Corbin, “became an obsession.” The Fragrances That Changed the Field 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z Sudden and temporary hair loss has a medical name: telogen effluvium. What to do if you’re experiencing hair loss after COVID-19 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z The hair loss may be tied to a condition called telogen effluvium, according to the report. Hair loss may be a coronavirus symptom, study finds 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Once such undisguised hatred is hurled, its effluvium clings, no matter how much is done to wash it away. Editorial Roundup: Florida 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z The delayed result, a form of diffuse hair loss called telogen effluvium, was causing her hair to fall out in frightening clumps. She Was Losing Fistfuls of Hair. What Was Causing It? 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z That’s important to keep in mind in an era that finds America wading hip deep in a cascading tide of bovine effluvium. We are a nation awash in public lies 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z It is not specific to COVID-19: Experts have known for centuries that severe illness, surgery, blood loss, hospitalization, childbirth and extreme emotional events, like the loss of a loved one, can trigger telogen effluvium. What to do if you’re experiencing hair loss after COVID-19 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Telogen effluvium hair loss typically starts about three months after the stressful event, which Freeman told Today would coincide with the pandemic’s peak. Hair loss may be a coronavirus symptom, study finds 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z They quoted Shakespeare and used words like “effluvium” in everyday speech. ‘We spoke English to set ourselves apart’: how I rediscovered my mother tongue 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Other theories included rotting animal carcasses, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and “effluvia” discharged into the air from the bowels of the earth. The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: How Far Have We Come? 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z A more temporary form of hair loss is telogen effluvium or when hair follicles get stuck in the telogen or resting phase and stop growing new hair. Do Hair Loss Treatments Actually Work? 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z Exactly how these physical and emotional stressors prompt telogen effluvium isn’t quite clear. What to do if you’re experiencing hair loss after COVID-19 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z And communities are addressing backyard threats: septic tanks and fertilizer-curried lawns that seem benign until a blue-green effluvium bubbles up and sends residents packing — not unlike a long-gone interloper in 1521. Opinion | Red Tide, Take Warning 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z From the pasture to the swamp, methane emissions on Earth are the effluvia of life. On Mars, atmospheric methane—a sign of life on Earth—changes mysteriously with the season 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Thanks to O’Keefe, The Post also showed a skeptical public just how different real journalism is from the effluvia produced by what would be more aptly named Pretext Veritas. Opinion | James O’Keefe shows what real fake news is 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z In her review, she commended Delillo and also seamlessly found a way to include the word “effluvia.” The literary life of Michiko Kakutani: the book critic's best feuds and reviews 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z If your hair-pull test is positive and your scalp does not show signs of redness or scarring, which are indicators of other types of hair loss, you most likely have telogen effluvium. What to do if you’re experiencing hair loss after COVID-19 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z The Times leader writer, Oliver Kamm, author of Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English, says that the swearing lexicon now draws less from religion and more from body effluvia. Why do people swear? - BBC News 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Residents were forced to flee to the second floor as their kitchens and living rooms were subsumed in noxious effluvia. Mexico City's water crisis – from source to sewer 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z But whale snot is not the only useful effluvia these marvelous creatures produce. A Whale of a Tale: Those Cetacean Waste Products Are More Valuable Than You Think 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Now a new study by Blamey et al. published in Nature Communications, adds another intriguing dimension to the question of martian methane, by looking at methane as a resource, rather than just biological effluvia. There's Methane In Them Thar Martian Rocks! 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z It’s “Exeunt the Kardashians” because, like all the effluvia of the current moment, the Kardashians replaced an earlier canon of throwaway cultural artifacts, and will themselves be replaced by newer ones soon. John Ashbery’s Feat of Style 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z "Rats live in man’s parallel universe, surviving on the effluvia of human society," writes Robert Sullivan in his book Rats. On the front lines of humanity’s high-tech, global war on rats 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z But at least there was no thrashing in the bodily effluvia of others. The Fraternity No Longer Belongs on the American College Campus "Poetry wasn't a craft but a sickly effluvium," she wrote, "the air thick with incense, musk and emotional blackmail." Pulitzer prize winner in poetry dies at 89 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z In yet another incarnation, spam floods Estonia’s as digital effluvia becomes an implement of cyber warfare. Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet [Excerpt, Part 4] 2013-06-21T17:15:01.653Z "What was an offensive open kennel which constantly emitted disagreeable and perhaps noxious effluvia," a Common Council committee concluded at the time, "will be made one of the handsomest streets in the city." City Room: A Building That Endured Nearly Two Centuries Is Threatened by Hurricane Sandy 2012-11-18T16:36:26Z Futures trading will extend from the most pristine rivers to the barely legal effluvia of solid-waste plants. Futures market: Wall Street's thirst for water 2012-10-24T17:20:43.547Z The drains are badly made and left absolutely to themselves until, choked up, they are opened up for repairs, when the hidden compressed effluvia send their noxious vapours into the homes around. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z Dorothy buried her face in the roses to get rid of the effluvium of such vulgarity. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z By this time the effluvia from the corpse was overpowering; it filled the apartments of the lighthouse, and the men were compelled to dispose of the body by throwing it into the sea. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z A moderate hot wind is relished by many people, for the air is dry and even exhilarating to the strong for a while; and the claim is made that it destroys noxious germs and effluvia. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z Any subtile, invisible emanation, effluvium, or exhalation from a substance, as the aroma of flowers, the odor of the blood, a supposed fertilizing emanation from the pollen of flowers, etc. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Several physicians and medical students have died too, but the majority of these live with the narrowest economy, and in the parts of the city the most liable to impure effluvia. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z One of the most difficult problems presented to the physician is to determine whether the effluvia from a given locality are injurious to health, and if so, to what extent. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Smoky soot from the dirty lamp and the nauseous effluvia from his unkempt bed-fellows were bad enough, but the excessive heat and impure air became quite unendurable. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Although Cuvier and Dumeril relate, that in opening the body of a man who died from excess of drinking, the effluvia of the liquor arose from every cavity. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The rancid odor of ill-kept kitchens mingled with the mitigated effluvium of decaying fruits and vegetables. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z No description can give an idea of the effluvium which is met with here and there beside this great salt lake, which has a length of eighty miles and an average breadth of twenty-four. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z A most offensive effluvium escaped from the drain, and the boys had watched the workmen cleaning it out. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z The dreadful effluvia first attracted notice; and after some search, the body was found. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z The unfortunate man only survived the event four days, when mortification of the burnt parts was most extensive, and the body emitted intolerable putrid effluvia. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The windows and doors stood open, and the evening breeze cleared the huts of the effluvium always present where a number of negroes congregate together. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z Again and again, visitors at Mount Auburn have been annoyed, by this effluvium from the tombs. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z The infection did not seem to depend so much on any prevailing disposition of the air as upon effluvia received from the breath of infected persons. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Later on, and the spirit gave place to the electric effluvium, which proceeded from the excited, or charged, body into the surrounding space. Heroes of Science: Physicists 2012-01-17T03:00:17Z It is somewhat singular, but suppuration of the brain is more offensive than the foulest ulcer, and it is with great difficulty that the pestilential effluvia can be tolerated. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z With this phenomenon I am already familiar in the case of phosphorescent gaseous effluvia. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z The Chinese physicians consider leprosy as a subtle, penetrating, poisonous effluvium which has infected the blood. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z This test, however, is not altogether trustworthy, for a renewed susceptibility to vaccinia by inoculation does not necessarily imply that the liability to take small-pox by effluvium has been regained. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z How he would prize the fragrance of a little flower, condemned as he was to smell nothing but the dank, noisome effluvia of the soap boiler’s factory. The Herriges Horror in Philadelphia A Full History of the Whole Affair. A Man Kept in a Dark Cage Like a Wild Beast for Twenty Years, As Alleged, in His Own Mother's and Brother's House 2011-12-14T03:00:19.043Z The keenness of the deaf and dumb boy in ascertaining the effluvium of various individuals, to which I have alluded, induces me to give a short sketch of this curious individual. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z All at once the horses have begun shrieking, kicking, and displaying every sign of fear, which could only be explained by their detecting the effluvia of some passing camels. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z It is the moral effluvium out of which our modern civilization has constructed itself. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z Here we was delayed in ye Dear Park, the effluvia of ye Dear being extream strong and doubtless puzzling to the Noses of ye Hounds. Reynard the Fox 2011-11-20T03:00:13.153Z It neutralizes pestilential effluvia, and, combined with capsicum, makes a good application for sore throat. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z These mummies, so long as they were kept in a dry place, were unaltered; but were soon decomposed, and emitted an unpleasant effluvium, when exposed to atmospheric moisture. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The atmosphere was stifling and heavy with an indistinct and disagreeable odor, compounded of the perfume of pomades and colognes and the effluvia of perspiring bodies. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z The quantity required by the sick is enormous, to compensate the products of respiration, and all the deleterious evaporations of the locality where they are placed, and all other effluvia of diverse natures. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z Of these processes are the calcination of metals, a mixture of iron-filings and sulphur, liver of sulphur, the burning of phosphorus, and the effluvia of flowers. Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry 2011-10-11T02:01:05.817Z From the battered, shapeless ruins of what had been the throbbing center of the world rose suffocatingly to Marise's senses the effluvium of weariness and decay. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z This is not correct: when the action of snuff has ceased, the disagreeable effluvia become again offensive. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The interior is very clean; but from the fish and other articles of food kept in them, you may readily imagine the effluvia is not very pleasant to European nicety. Samboe; or, The African Boy 2011-09-04T02:00:04.743Z In the working classes the offspring must be fatally affected by the poisonous trades, the sickening effluvia, the deadly conditions amongst which modern commerce requires its slaves to spend their lives. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z More important in relation to the modern problems of evolution is his thoroughly materialistic way of explaining the origin of sensation and knowledge by help of his peculiar hypothesis of effluvia and pores. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z He supposed it more likely that demons had entered the sick woman, and advised Cinna to leave Egypt, where, in addition to demons, marshy effluvia of the Delta might injure Antea. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z Pope Clement VII. sunk under the baneful effluvia of a torch that was carried before him; and Mathioli relates, that nosegays thus impregnated have been frequently known to prove fatal. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Breathing long and deep of tepid air flavoured strongly with dust and the effluvia of dead cigars and cigarettes, she turned away from the window, lifted her arms and spread them wide, luxuriously. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z After this, how can we be surprised if this flood of putrid emanations is transformed into a contagious typhic virus, whose subtle and pestilential effluvia are conveyed by the ox to considerable distances? On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment 2011-06-24T02:00:18.093Z The familiar verbal effluvia of the patent medicine industry clutter some early posters. On View: Spoonfuls of Medicine, Marketed for Centuries 2011-06-20T20:47:24Z Its presence must have a sensible influence upon the purity of the air, by removing from it fœtid and injurious organic effluvia. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z From a crevice in the wall he took out a handful of strong-smelling herbs; these he broke up and added to the stew with the object of deadening the effluvium. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z The mysterious qualities of the magnet were held by Fludd as nothing less than an angelical effluvia. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z His senses had not been assailed by any noisome effluvia. Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:26.023Z He reached it by a dark, dirty, damp staircase, from which, as in all the inhabited houses of the poorer class in St Petersburg, exhaled an effluvia of spirits vexatious to nose and eyes alike. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z Afterward the effluvia from the dead bodies became so intolerable, that he was obliged in his turn to ask a truce, and request the Federal officers to bury their dead. My Cave Life in Vicksburg With Letters of Trial and Travel 2011-03-30T02:00:13.113Z The effluvium became so bad that it was found impossible to approach this bovine Golgotha except when the wind was favourable. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z As it does not appear to be a custom among them to remove these heaps of excremental filth, it may be supposed that the effluvia does not annoy them. Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II 2011-03-24T02:00:13.247Z The air was loaded with that horrid effluvia peculiar to the dead body of a human being. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z The poor beasts coughed and sneezed continuously, throwing off effluvium, the odor of which was disagreeable in the extreme. The Mormons and the Theatre or The History of Theatricals in Utah 2011-03-14T03:01:07.627Z Even if no pieces of rubber are present, the serum from the coagulum is subject to decomposition, the effluvium from which is objectionable. The Preparation of Plantation Rubber 2011-03-09T03:00:40.870Z The evening was oppressively warm, and through the wide-open window came the faint effluvium of populous cottages and the distant but raucous cries of children at play. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z No doubt the lines are crude, but Boyle goes too far with his “cloven hoof,” his “effluvia of social corruption,” his “thick miasma.” Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z At the same time, it emitted loud noises from its throat and nostrils, that resembled the rumbling of distant thunder, and its musky smell filled the air with a sickening effluvium. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z The effluvium of a neighbouring bleaching works was wafted to their nostrils. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z The walls of the boys' changing rooms were likewise decorated with Gecko's throaty-nasal effluvia. Tiger Woods and his not-so-great expectorations 2011-02-18T00:06:00Z Thus, he carefully closes his bed-chamber against its entrance, and prefers that his lungs should receive the mixed effluvia from his cellar and larder, and from a patent little modern aquarius, in lieu of it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z The effluvia of his garments told eloquently his profession. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z The effluvia from the hospital was very offensive. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z Frederick inhaled it with his utmost energy, drinking in this good air of Paris, which seems to contain the effluvia of love and the emanations of the intellect. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z It would not be the first time that the investment bank has gotten caught up in what the business writer Roger Lowenstein described as “the sudsy effluvium of Silicon Valley.” DealBook: Why Facebook Is Such a Crucial Friend for Goldman 2011-01-03T16:55:43Z Scores of carcasses lay in and around the camp; and, as the hot sun continued to burn down upon them, the effluvia was every moment becoming more offensive, and would soon be unbearable. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z Far more bizarre is what people put up under their own names: a noxious effluvium of personal detail, revealed intimacies, skewed views and solipsistic ego-stroking. Confessing secrets to strangers online 2010-05-30T13:00:00Z Tar put on the festering wound corrodes it; but this, or spirits of turpentine placed on the sound parts near it, keep off the flies by their strong effluvia. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. He thereby passes through the clearest country, has the best walking and escapes the nauseous effluvia emitted from the animals' hoofs. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. The two young men, owing to the relative position of the chambers they occupied, were particularly exposed to the poisonous effluvia. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician Next to this is air containing other gases than oxygen and hydrogen—sewer gas, and the effluvium from decaying things. The Science of Being Well So lunar things tend to the Moon, solar things to the Sun, within the orbes of their own effluvia. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments One seems to have glanced momentarily into the deepest abysses of hell, and to have drawn back totally sickened by a subtle effluvium. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" It was cool; now and then an effluvium of tea came to Victoria, mingled with the scent of toast. A Bed of Roses A reek of the man pack came to her, close, stifling, mingled of tobacco, alcohol, and the worse effluvia of many men excited.... The Broken Gate A Novel Moreover, the striated effluvia of whisky, talcum powder, and perspiration had made her head feel a little queer. The Book of Susan A Novel Therefore the denser effluvia of flint producing fire are very far different from electrical effluvia, which on account of their extreme attenuation do not take fire, nor are fit material for flame. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments And from all of him came waves that thrilled—the mysterious effluvia that compels and dominates the woman to whom Life means this life. H. R. The struggle was between theories of ‘atoms,’ magnetism, ‘corpuscules,’ electric effluvia, and so forth, on one side, and the immediate action of devils or of conscious imposture, on the other. Custom and Myth New Edition So great a quantity of these fish were ejected from the volcano of Imbaburu in 1691, that fevers, which prevailed at the period, were attributed to the effluvia arising from the putrid animal matter. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology When weary of the odor of benzine and soap suds, Frances will be able to stand on the door-sill for a moment and inhale the effluvia of fried oysters or defunct canaries. A Top-Floor Idyl Those effluvia are not of the nature of breath, for when emitted they do not propel anything, but are exhaled without sensible resistance and touch bodies. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments It was something between a shambles, a museum, and a tanyard, and exhaled in consequence the mixed effluvia of decomposing flesh, alcohol, tannin, and the oil of petroleum. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 As long as the twig turned over material objects, you could imagine sympathies and ‘effluvia’ at pleasure. Custom and Myth New Edition A beam, A mere effluvium of his majesty: 420 And shall an atom of this atom-world Mutter, in dust and sin, the theme of heaven? Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes I stood among a knot of prisoners, enveloped in a nauseous vapor; whence arose musty, mouldy, rotten effluvia which gradually overpowered my senses. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. Non-electrick bodies are not resolved into humid effluvia, and those effluvia mix with the common and general effluvia of the earth, and are not peculiar. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments The atmosphere of that primitive and ill-ventilated tenement was stuffy and oppressive with an effluvium of grease and smoke, and the cockroaches were running over his face and hands. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War However, acting on my best judgment, I struck a downward course, and then suddenly a horrible effluvium was wafted to my nostrils. A Veldt Vendetta Camphor and some volatile oils have also been employed as air disinfectants, but their virtues lie chiefly in masking, not destroying, noxious effluvia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" Ethics, art, religion, science, are they then but products of economic conditions?—expositions of the categories of these very conditions?—effluvia, ornaments, emanations and mirages of material interests? Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History And just as light does not remain in the air above vapours and effluvia, and is not reflected from those spaces, so neither is the magnetick ray held in air or water. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments From this pit arose such a horrible effluvium that the explorers recoiled in disgust. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War Then, as it grew stronger, it took on a vile effluvium as of something dead. A Frontier Mystery “Oh, Lord!” giving a sniff or two as a vile and carrion-like effluvium strikes upon his nostrils. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland This was completed in 1879, and the body of a horse was cremated rapidly and completely without any smoke or effluvia from the chimney. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" That the electric effluvia are stopped by the interposition of a sheet of paper or a piece of linen, or by moist air blown from the mouth. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments Model Lodging Houses, therefore, well supplied with water, and arranged in all other respects with reference to the prevention of effluvia, have been suggested instead, as intramural habitations for the inferior classes. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Of the extraordinary and overwhelming effluvium which had poisoned the air then, there was now no longer a trace, and this disposed of the theory that anything dead had been lying thereabouts. A Frontier Mystery Together with this discovery he got a whiff of an acrid-sweet effluvium that spelled "Oxalic Acid—Poison" as unmistakably as did the druggist's label on the empty packet on the wash-stand.... The Destroying Angel All decaying animal remains give off effluvia—gases—which are transferred through the medium of the atmosphere to become converted into vegetable growth of some kind—trees, crops, garden produce, grass, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" That the heat of the sun, even when concentrated by a burning mirror, confers no vigour on the amber, but dissipates the effluvia. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments Stink and stench From slaughter-house and sewer; The oozing gas from opened trench, The effluvia of the pools that drench Court-yards impure. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) But they ran great risks from the wild beasts of prey in the surrounding forests and from effluvia arising from the decaying bodies. Elsie in the South Instead, both turned to an explanation based upon magnetic effluvia or corpuscles. The Natural Philosophy of William Gilbert and His Predecessors An old privy occupied the south-west corner of the ground, the vault of which overflowed into the yard and emitted an effluvia that would be certain to create disease, even in an otherwise healthy locality. In and Out of Rebel Prisons He therefore put forward his idea that a substance to be an electric must necessarily consist of a concreted humour which is partially resolved into an effluvium by attrition. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments The air of some villages is said to have been loaded with the effluvia to such an extent that one riding along the street perceptibly discerned the taint in the atmosphere. James Gilmour of Mongolia His diaries, letters, and reports During the repairs, in 1850, it is stated that 4,000 coffins were found beneath the church, and were covered with brickwork and concrete to prevent the escape of noxious effluvia. Old and New London Volume I The source of the effluvia could be inferred from the properties of the electrics. The Natural Philosophy of William Gilbert and His Predecessors Her fellow-passengers expressed their disgust at the nauseous effluvium, when she remarked that it was the custom of her country. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years There arose a fashion, which lasted over a century, for ascribing to "humours," or "fluids," or "effluvia," physical effects which could not otherwise be accounted for. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments The same tree bore the Judge's blossom in June, and the Attorney's fruit in October,—both reeking out the effluvia of the same substance. The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence And in the same way if Cavendish Square came sniffing up pestilential effluvia in Drury Lane, it was The Square's look out, not Typhus's. When Ghost Meets Ghost This humoric source of the effluvia was substantiated by Gilbert in a number of ways. The Natural Philosophy of William Gilbert and His Predecessors It had to be abandoned; and the horrible effluvia and pestilence which it emitted drove all the inhabitants of the country away. Alexander the Great Makers of History For oil is light and rare, and does not resist the most delicate effluvia. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments By their action, substances finely pulverized, or in the form of gas, are readily imbibed when inhaled into the lungs, such as metallic vapors, odoriferous particles, tobacco smoke, and other effluvia. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) Another overflow of the Tiber had co-operated with the malarious effluvia of those congested alleys, those strictly limited houses swarming with multiplying broods. Dreamers of the Ghetto All these examples seemed to justify the hypothesis that the nature of electrics is such that material effluvia are emitted when electrics are rubbed, and that the effluvia are rarer than air. The Natural Philosophy of William Gilbert and His Predecessors Of the effect of the calcination of Metals, and of the effluvia of Paint made with White-Lead and Oil, on Air 133 Sect. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air But the peculiar electrical effluvia, which are the most subtile material of diffuse humour, entice corpuscles. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments In some of the higher orders of the inferior animals, there is an astonishing acuteness of smell in regard to effluvia that come from living animals. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) But she was little appreciative of this boon; she comprehended her surroundings with just a little languid resentment of their smug cleanliness and their atmosphere impregnated with effluvia of cheap edibles. Nobody Different bodies have different effluvia, and so one has coacervation of different materials. The Natural Philosophy of William Gilbert and His Predecessors At Buxton also, where the Bath is in a close vault, the effects of such effluvia, if noxious, must certainly be perceived. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air Clear air is a convenient medium for an electrical effluvium excited from concreted humour. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments Experiments have shown, that black and other dark colors will absorb more readily the subtile effluvia that emanate from sick persons, than white or light colors. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) The rancid taste and smell of some grapes which are similar to the effluvium of a fox. Manual of American Grape-Growing The steps in electrical attraction were described as occurring on two different levels of abstraction: first one has physical contact through an effluvium or "spiritus" that connects the two objects physically. The Natural Philosophy of William Gilbert and His Predecessors The smell of this air was exceedingly pungent, but different from that of the putrid effluvium. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air But what is that effluvium from crystal, glass, and diamond, since these are bodies of considerable hardness and firmly concreted? On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments Here there was nothing to fight, nothing to challenge the mind, to tear the living soul out of a body with its roots dripping in effluvium as tangible as blood. The Game of Rat and Dragon At such times a faint boiling sound was heard, and there arose an effluvium that bade fair to overcome even the monster engaged in the foul work. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 Places infected with flies and other insects, overrun with rats, and the effluvia of which is easily noticeable at a distance of half a mile, are not uncommon and suggest their own condemnation. Rural Hygiene That the putrid effluvium will mix with water seems to be evident from the following experiment. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air It is manifest indeed that the effluvia are destroyed by flame and igneous * heat; and therefore they attract neither flame nor bodies very near a flame. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments From that time she could not bear the effluvia of the human body, and rose up into trees and on the highest towers with incredible lightness, there to watch and pray. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. A solution of copper is an excellent wash for purifying sinks, and removing all unpleasant effluvia. Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements The Pippin began to send forth effluvia, an exquisite vapor, faintly-blue. The Trimming of Goosie The noxious effluvium with which air is loaded by animal respiration, is not absorbed by standing, without agitation; in fresh or salt water. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air The effluvia extend out their virtue—effluvia which are proper and peculiar to them, and sui generis, differing from common air, being produced from humour, excited by a calorifick motion from attrition and attenuation. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments This focus of effluvia, together with the general and copious use of similar materials in manuring the adjacent fields, occasioned an intolerable stench, and generated diarrhœas, in the early part of the spring. North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 Materializations, they argue, are produced through the effluvia of the living and controlled by the subliminal forces of the participators in the s�ance. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war Newly prepared charcoal will absorb various kinds of noxious effluvia, and might be used with considerable advantage for the purification of privies, if small pieces of it are strewed upon the floor. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families The air that is discharged from putrefying substances seems, in some cases, to be chiefly fixed air, with the addition of some other effluvium, which has the power of diminishing common air. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air Is any such magnetical effluvium given off, whether corporeal or incorporeal? or is nothing at all given off that subsists? On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments I rushed from my bed, from the room, from the house, to escape the hideous effluvium; and—well, darkness veiled the rest! Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand The best usage now limits contagion to diseases that are transmitted by contact with the diseased person, either directly by touch or indirectly by use of the same articles, by breath, effluvia, etc. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions In two or three days it will absorb all the offensive effluvia arising from the paint, and render the room wholesome. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Nothing to the turgid river, draining all effluvia from the yellow heart of this festering land. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China Again, burning* sulphur and hard wax, made from shell-lac, when aflame do not allure; for heat from friction resolves bodies into effluvia, which flame consumes away. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments Ah! that effluvium of hatred which seemed to weave a tangible net around him! Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 Instead of a hundred homes being made to reek of unsavoury dishes, or the detestable odour of bad cooking, the offensive effluvia will be confined to one building. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals To beat it up with the hand is an indelicate practice, as the butter cannot fail to imbibe the animal effluvia: a warm hand especially will soften it, and make it appear greasy. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families This circumstance, added to the effluvia of the numerous swamps and stagnant pools in the neighbourhood, are known to be extremely injurious. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe Electrick effluvia are not only impeded by any dense matter, but also in like manner by flames, or if a small flame is near, they do not allure. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments I stood among a knot of prisoners, enveloped in a nauseous vapour; for there arose musty, mouldy, effluvia which gradually overpowered my senses. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France The ends sought hereby are safety, and the convenience of discharging the culinary effluvia into the atmosphere. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge The thorough identity of the powerful effluvium that fills the pump-room with that of a muddy sea-bottom laid bare in warm weather by the tide, is to the dweller on the sea-coast very striking. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Perhaps a preceding clap had struck near the building, broken the windows, put out the lights, and filled the house with the electric effluvium. Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father The mouth of the pit was closed with lime grouting, so that no effluvium could escape, and this covering was not broken until the pit was wanted to be used again. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life It should also never be left uncovered, for it readily absorbs gases, effluvia, and contaminating substances in the air, and affords an excellent medium for the growth and propagation of germs. The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) Faugh! the spectacle is too horrible to be looked at; its effluvia is too fetid to be endured. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Perhaps the effluvia of the gamy tit-bit have reached them from afar, imperceptible to any other sense than that of the grave-diggers. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles She listened for a repetition of the thunder—but a very different sound soon grated filled the house with electric effluvium. Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Facts have been observed 107with respect to insects even, which cannot be otherwise accounted for than by odorous effluvia. Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction It is established by observation that concentrated animal effluvia form a very energetic poison. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Scores of corpses received no burial, and the atmosphere of the city was pervaded with a shocking effluvium. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era The air retains as if echoes, or fragrances, of the personalities which have but just withdrawn; it is sweetened with effluvia of Walther's youth, of Sachs's greatness of heart. The Wagnerian Romances The old custom of washing hives with salt and water and other substances, to give them a pleasant effluvia, should be speedily abolished. A Manual or an Easy Method of Managing Bees Every one is acquainted with the danger of stove pipes, but all are not perhaps aware that pipes for conveying away the heat and effluvia from gas-burners are also very dangerous when placed near timber. Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction It will scarcely be possible for such a person long to breathe bad air, or nauseous or unwholesome effluvia, without knowing it, and learning to avoid the causes which produce it. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes It was impossible for them to continue in the capital, where the poisonous effluvia from the unburied carcasses loaded the air with infection. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 Note that the horns of goats, antelopes, etc.., and bulls and cows are set on a bony core, and must come off to prevent an offensive effluvium. Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. It is of a dingy yellow colour, and offensive ammoniacal effluvium. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The privations he underwent there, the moral and physical fatigue, the effluvia from the adjoining marshes, and the mode of life he was forced to lead, all combined to affect his naturally good health. My Recollections of Lord Byron The exclamation was forced from me by an overpowering effluvium that at the moment swept on board us from the drifting boat, which was now on our weather-bow, and close aboard of us. The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" There was effluvium from the individual lying next to him and this was a type of wind as well. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais It was the divine breath which passed over the little Church, and filled it with a celestial effluvium. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 An impure effluvium in the air—proceeding from marshes or moist ground acted upon by solar heat—by which malaria fevers, particularly intermittents, are produced. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Three other men were going up at the same time, who filled the narrow ascent with garlicky effluvia. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I The breath becomes foul and fetid, and the effluvia from the ulcerated surface, is very sickening to the patient and all around him. An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time He found the skin very cold, the respiration feeble and slow, but otherwise natural; but the effluvia from the breath, and perhaps the skin, were extremely offensive. Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology It is a matter of great importance that the dairy should not be situated near a pig-stye, sewer, or water-closet, the effluvia from which would be likely to taint the milk. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock The cultivation was scanty; and the potato fields, utterly ruined by disease, tainted the air with sickening effluvia. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland When passing the hive our olfactories are saluted with a nauseous effluvia, arising from this corrupting mass. Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained It appears to use this horrid effluvium—which is generated in glands near the tail—as a means of defence. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America An almost insupportable mouldy odour, like the effluvium arising from a dead body, pervaded the atmosphere; but eager to obtain the bird, Lejoillie pushed on, and I followed. In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting In this way, effluvia of all kinds may be virtually burnt up; and this is the principle of the excellent charcoal respirators invented by Dr. Stenhouse. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 I preferred to face the storm to bearing the effluvia of that highland abode. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 His head began to spin from the sickening effluvium. The Coffin Cure He continually visits these hills, and in consequence a strong musky effluvia arises from them. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The dogs, however, brought the effluvium along with them; and it required unusual scolding and pelting of stones to keep them at a respectful distance. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness He gathered several specimens without allowing any part to touch his skin, but the "scentless effluvium" was so powerful as to cause unpleasant effects for the rest of the day. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children The whole atmosphere of the islet, as well as a large circle around it, was impregnated with the fearful effluvium. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Vivid light forces this effluvia, this mysterious double, back into its originating body with disrupting haste. The Shadow World At that time noxious effluvia was not peculiar to this parish. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency His defensive armour is found in the fetid effluvium which, by a muscular exertion, he is capable of ejecting upon his pursuer. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness It is a common error with those who have no knowledge of Latin to speak of "a disagreeable effluvia," which is as incorrect as it would be to talk about "a disagreeable vapors." The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Into the air there crept a tension, the intangible effluvium of excitement which precedes the arousing of the crowd. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain The world is a vast organism, all the parts of which are connected through an unceasing exchange of molecules of effluvia. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism There was a smell of burnt cloth, of powder, of all heated and brazen things, indescribable, unforgettable, the effluvia of the battlefield. The Long Roll The effluvium itself is caused by a thin fluid, which cannot be seen in daylight, but at night appears, when ejected, like a double stream of phosphoric light. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness A very cool mirror, brought suddenly near to the skin, will be covered, in that part, with a moisture, which is this effluvium thus made visible. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School It was a gloomy, foggy, chilly day, and the damp of the atmosphere was mingled with the reeking, dank, animal effluvia that came up, thick and almost tangible, from the filthy receptacle of crowded hundreds. Rattlin the Reefer The hides and skins are never dried in the immediate vicinity of their lodges, but at a great distance where the effluvia can hurt no one. Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet All the long place was reekingly hot, with a strong smell of human effluvia, of sweat-dampened clothing, of blood and powder grime. The Long Roll A few hours after Quid’s death, the body emitted certain effluvia denoting the necessity of immediate interment. Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer The fresh air has the power of removing much of the noxious effluvia received from the body by the clothing. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School The extreme heat and effluvia from the crowds of natives, who witnessed the performance, forced Captain M— and his companions unwillingly to abandon a scene so novel to an European. The King's Own Is or is not that which is called magnetic effluvia a something, a stuff or a substance, invisible and imponderable though it be?... Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution They could keep away the tormenting flies, drawn by the heat, the glare, the blood and effluvia, could give the parched lips water, could watch by the less terrifically hurt. The Long Roll It is pleasant that the precious effluvium has been brought so efficiently under the Wisdom's own wise nose. Gryll Grange Under ordinary circumstances they were not pleasant neighbours, but horrible must have been the effluvium arising from them after they had thus gorged themselves. Twice Lost The heat and effluvium which arose from below were almost unbearable, the instant the hatches, which had necessarily been closed during the night, were taken off. The Three Lieutenants They were close alongside of the schooner; and the blacks’ nostrils began to quiver and their excitement increase as they caught the horrible, sickening effluvium which was wafted from the hold. The Black Bar Moreover, the effluvium arising from so many rapidly decomposing carcasses was, of itself, a sufficient deterrent. The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn Yes, good position—a trifle low perhaps—I have heard complaints of—er—effluvium from the river—I'm anxious to give you perfect satisfaction, madame. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House When she looks at a person or a thing she senses the effluvia that radiate from them and it is by this that she gauges her loves and hates or her tolerance of them. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets That trace of effluvia which in force could sicken a Terran, was his guide. Storm Over Warlock The reek of stable-stained coats and boots, the smell of strong tobacco, the effluvia of many breaths, the heat, the closeness were forgotten in the fervor of the young evangelist's utterances. Other Main-Travelled Roads The water ran down every channel, and very little blood could be seen, or effluvia noticed. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland Oh, Boswell! the soporific effluvia of a hearty dinner cloud all my faculties. Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica The reek of stable-stained coats34 and boots, the smell of strong tobacco, the effluvia of many breaths, the heat, the closeness, were forgotten in the fervor of the young evangelist's utterances. Wayside Courtships The use of lime in whitewash is not only to give a white color, but it greatly promotes the complete oxidation of effluvia in the cellar air. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference While awaiting the emperor's reply, the soldiers suffered greatly from the heat and the effluvia from the neighboring marshes. By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico But the notion is not taken away; it is nourished; it flourishes on its own effluvia. A Book of Prefaces To a certain extent its effluvium is noxious to insects, and it may therefore be employed for preserving specimens, as well as for protecting fabrics against moths. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure It was an universal notion that a divine energy proceeded from these effluvia, and that the persons who resided in their vicinity were gifted with a prophetic quality. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. The smell of the Kardo uniting with the general effluvia of the room and its inhabitants heightened his queasiness. Star Hunter The effluvium, however, usually does not reach the inmates unless the house is very low. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir Now, not only the crater but its steaming effluvia was utterly unlike anything I had ever before beheld. Police!!! It was unavoidable to conclude that no one was within; yet the effluvia of gunpowder was perceptible. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 There was no mistaking that sickly sweet stench born of decaying animal matter, which was the betraying effluvium of a snake-devil's lair. Star Born Thus the idea of strongly scented effluvia, which are cut off by screens of wood, metal, card, glass, or what not, returns with double force. Social Life in the Insect World The ward was filled with an effluvia that caused my heart to heave with painful qualms. The Last Man On removing the earth till they came to the coffin, they involuntarily found their hands raised in this position to guard their nostrils against the offensive effluvia that 'rose from the grave. The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge The effluvia became more sensible as I approached the door of the chamber. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 We strove desperately to escape the horrible effluvium, but it could not be avoided unless we buried our heads. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben This scent readily impregnates any object on which the female rests for any length of time, when this object becomes a centre of attraction as active as the moth herself until the effluvium is evaporated. Social Life in the Insect World The plague I am told is in Constantinople, perhaps I have imbibed its effluvia—perhaps disease is the real cause of my prognostications. The Last Man Meanwhile the accumulation of dead bodies in the houses, courts, and gardens, and their unwholesome effluvia, infected the air. History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 The honey and spice-breaths of flowers mingled with the rank effluvia of leather like a delicate melody with a harsh bass. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel Its effluvium offended only one sense, affected only one set of sensation nerves. Operation Terror Delivering the prisoners, and removing the flannel, which I placed in a perfectly closed box, I found that they re-entered the trap; attracted by the effluvia that the flannel had communicated to the glass. Social Life in the Insect World The communication of disease from one person to another, whether by effluvia or by contact, mediate or immediate. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada He belongs to the weasel tribe, and all these animals are noted for certain odors which they possess, but the skunk is pre-eminent in the utter noisomeness of the horrid effluvium which it exhales. Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making The effluvia that proceeds from their persons in the summer season is quite insufferable; it is as if you applied your nose to a cask of rancid oil. Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. Wherefore I deduce that the spirit of the inhabitants must pierce through and emanate from the senseless walls like an effluvium. The River and I I would mask these effluvia, stifle them under a powerful, tenacious odour, which would take complete possession of the sense-organ and neutralise the less powerful impression. Social Life in the Insect World Propagated by contagion or by immediate contact or effluvia. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada The result of the discharge fills the air for a great distance around, and man and beast fly from the neighborhood of the indescribable and fetid effluvium, which fairly makes one's nostrils ache. Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making The effluvia, the radiating emanations by the aid of which two distant bodies form a calorific communication with each other, have been very appropriately designated by the name of radiating caloric. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men The heat of the sun causes the effluvia to exhale quickly, so they are seldom offensive. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 Perhaps, too, the low temperature was unfavourable to the informing effluvia, which might well be increased by heat and lessened by cold as is the case with many odours. Social Life in the Insect World I have a vivid recollection of hearing one member talk about the 'effluvium which rises from that dung heap opposite,' alluding to another member, who fortunately was well able to return the compliment in kind. Town Life in Australia These facts of observation support those who say that the odors, effluvia, and exhalations emitted from plants, earths, and ponds, are what give the initiative to such things. Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom Through the wood came the vague smells of autumn—a reminiscent waft of decay, the reek of mould on rotting logs, the effluvium of overblown flowers, the healthful smack of the pines. The Voice of the People M. Somzee also raises the illuminating power of an ordinary flat-flame burner by causing an obscure effluvium to traverse the dark portion of the flame. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 Would not such a receptacle arrest or set free the informing effluvia according to its nature? Social Life in the Insect World No drainage by secret, underground seams in the soil can then poison the water of wells; and no effluvia can arise to taint the air and create fevers. Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 Its sweetness evaporates like the effluvia exhaled from beds of flowers! Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution Over all was the faint violet haze of the season, hanging above the gay old garden like a delicate effluvium from autumns long decayed. The Voice of the People In the Public Library the combined influences of gas, heat and effluvium have wrought upon the leather until many covers were ready to drop to pieces at a touch. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Are these splendid plumes merely items of finery, or do they really play a part in the perception of the effluvia which guide the lover? Social Life in the Insect World The uninterrupted passage of light through transparent bodies, of the electric �ther through metallic and aqueous bodies, and of the magnetic effluvia through all bodies, would seem to give some probability to this opinion. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life The effluvium that arose polluted even the fresh air of the ocean, and burdened the breeze for miles to windward. American Merchant Ships and Sailors What health and vigor can belong to that body politic which is forced to inhale the nauseous effluvia of tyranny? Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America In the Athen�um less gas has been used, and there is very little effluvium, but the mealy texture of the leather is general among the older tenants of the shelves. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Faint as are the effluvia of this subterranean fungus, the prospecting epicure, being specially equipped, perceives them with the greatest ease; but then he operates at close range, from the surface of the soil. Social Life in the Insect World This other line, though, shows the faintest imaginable trace of soap; and these uncertain, wavering ones are caused by some effluvium not in the comet itself, but in the region beyond it. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales In America that unpleasant effluvium has generally been considered a peculiarity pertaining to the colored race. The Empire of Russia Insufficient time for meals is a universal complaint; and nine times out of ten, the conveniences provided are insufficient for the numbers who must use them, and thus throw off offensive and dangerous effluvia. Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future The packages are never sent to this country in the hold of the ship, as their contents are easily tainted by noisome effluvia, of sugar, &c. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. The emission of the warning effluvium is more or less delayed according to the species. Social Life in the Insect World But though in these points they shew so little delicacy, they are not without emotions of disgust, when they meet with strong effluvia to which their organs are unaccustomed. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) "There are diabolical effluvia in the storm, and in weather when the air stirs like the vapours from a furnace, rousing evil instincts and bringing about us the raging swarm of evil angels." The Cathedral All factories are to be kept clean, as any effluvia arising from closets, etc., renders the owners liable to a fine. Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future Millions daily bathed in the poisonous damps and destructive effluvia of lead, silver, copper, and arsenic. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) Is he warned of the contents of the subsoil by a general emanation, by that fungoid effluvium common to all the species? Social Life in the Insect World It was a warm day in October, so warm that she had opened the window, letting in with the air the effluvia from the filthy street, and the discordant noises. A Village Ophelia and Other Stories In fact, his baleful effluvia are of two kinds: one characterized by the stench of sulphurous waters and drains; the other by a false odour of sanctity, delicious gusts of sweetness and temptation. The Cathedral From time to time he sniffed of it deeply, saturating his memory with the quality of its effluvia. The Silent Places The carpet was spoiled—the house was impregnated with the sooty effluvia, and the company was expected to arrive at nine o’clock. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841 Are there effluvia analogous to what we call odour: effluvia of extreme subtlety, absolutely imperceptible to us, yet capable of stimulating a sense-organ far more sensitive than our own? Social Life in the Insect World But human activities proceed, ever increasing their momentum, until the atmosphere is no longer clear, but heavy with the effluvia of by no means righteous thought and action. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 The stagnant canals in the dry season exhale an intolerable stench, and the trees impede the course of the air, by which, in some degree, the putrid effluvia would be dissipated. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 The further we went the thicker became the air; and at last the effluvia was so stifling and pestilential, that the torches burnt pale and dim, and more than once threatened to go out. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Is or is not that which is called magnetic effluvium a something, a stuff, or a substance, invisible, and imponderable though it be? Five Years of Theosophy Moreover, where my laboratory was previously saturated with powerful odours which should have overcome and annihilated any particularly delicate effluvium, the male moths arrived without the least indication of confusion or delay. Social Life in the Insect World With quivering nostrils she was inhaling the effluvia of the perfumes and of the couples. Là-bas As long as the twig turned over material objects, you could imagine sympathies and ‘effluvia’ at pleasure. Custom and Myth The amount of organic effluvium thrown off by the lungs on the re-establishment of respiration was very great and tainted the atmosphere of the room and adjoining ward. Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 The cutaneous exhalation of the goat, the sheep, the donkey, widely differ from each other; and a similar difference prevails with regard to all the other effluvia of these animals. Five Years of Theosophy Whatever its nature, whether of glass, metal, card, or wood, the closed receptacle was evidently an insuperable obstacle to the warning effluvia. Social Life in the Insect World The sexual organs must be veiled at an early period, to prevent the dangerous effluvia which they give off from reaching the environment. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism The struggle was between theories of ‘atoms,’ magnetism, ‘corpuscules,’ electric effluvia, and so forth, on one side, and the immediate action of devils or of conscious imposture, on the other. Custom and Myth The hides and skins are never dried in the immediate vicinity of their lodges, but at a great distance, where the effluvia can hurt no one. Monsieur Violet This arises from the brain effluvia which they have left upon the canvas, which is more powerful in its quality than a grain of musk, which will impart its odor for a hundred years. Strange Visitors It must perceive effluvia of another order as well; entirely mysterious to us, and therefore not utilised. Social Life in the Insect World Associated words: light-fingered, booty, spoil, plunder, loot, swag, spoils, predatory, fence, kleptomania. stealthy, a. clandestine, sly, secret, furtive, skulking, underhand. steam, n. vapor, reek, fume, emanation, effluvium, exhalation, stufa. steam organ. calliope. steel, n. Putnam's Word Book A few hours after Quid's death, the body emitted certain effluvia denoting the necessity of immediate interment. Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer I don't know what it means, unless it be a modern Yankee expression for a tract of horrid swamps with deadly effluvia, tenanted by millions of snakes and other "such hospitable reptiles." Monsieur Violet Indeed, Science is likely to make people dread them a great deal more than Superstition ever did, by showing that their effluvia breed typhus and cholera; so that they are really and truly very dangerous. International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 3, July 15, 1850 At a greater depth neither dog nor insect could perceive such subtle effluvia, nor even the odour of the truffle. Social Life in the Insect World When assafoetida is mingled with the tobacco, the sensation which ensues, as the foul effluvium is gently wafted through the keyhole, is anything but pleasing to the olfactory nerves. A Collection of College Words and Customs The writer's zeal from first to last knows no abatement, but it is not every reader who cares to bend over the dissecting-table, with its sick effluvia, during so prolonged a demonstration. Robert Browning Inside it was like a corridor and in this mire spray painted in Spanish graffiti he ascended and descended on pavement wreaking of the effluvium of evaporating urine. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America How far the effluvia of the slave-ship will be wafted, into what strange latitudes of temperance and sturdy independence, even to the privacy of solemn and high-minded thought! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 That force, both in the air and in the water, is effluvium. The Man Who Laughs It was for this reason that our troops retired from the city immediately after the capture of Guatimotzin: Cortes was himself ill for some time, owing to the dreadful effluvia arising from the putrifying bodies. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 04 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time As the heated air and effluvia of crowded rooms pass upwards, it is common to leave apertures in or near the ceiling for their escape. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 537, March 10, 1832 With Seong Seob no longer allowing him to penetrate, her flesh seemed all the more sumptuous despite the effluvium of cheap perfume that exuded from it. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America I felt choked, as if some poisonous effluvia—the poison, Sir, of that man's infamy—had got into my throat. Castles in the Air The wind and the wave are only impulses; effluvium is a current. The Man Who Laughs The walls were of stone, and the pallet on which he was laid was of straw, but the place was dry, and free from the noisome effluvium pervading the lower dungeon. The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 An Historical Romance The odor of factories and of chemical products now passed with the breeze which was simulated by means of fans; nature exhaled its sweet effluvia amid this putrescence. Against the Grain His voice drifted slowly on the stream of smoke flowing from his mouth and from the effluvia of his lackadaisical scorn. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America This effluvia of an army, mixed with the sharper reek of anaesthetics, was the atmosphere of the hospital. A Volunteer Poilu The wind is visible in clouds, the wave is visible in foam; effluvium is invisible. The Man Who Laughs The abundance and cheapness of fish render it the common food of the lower classes, and consequently its effluvia sometimes pervade the whole atmosphere. Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay The cottages in the open fields are comparatively pleasant to visit, the sweet fresh air carries away effluvia. Hodge and His Masters She told herself that a higher being, a licentious goddess, was able to sculpt a higher authority within all this effluvium, this muck of feelings and thought. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Physicians, in visiting the sick, have been known to form a prognostic, before having seen the patient, from the effluvia of the sick-room. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829 If the solution of the callina of the Spaniards and the quobar of the Ethiopians be possible, assuredly that solution will be achieved by attentive observation of magnetic effluvium. The Man Who Laughs And he declared that neither animal nor bird could breathe the noxious effluvia from the tree without instant death. Among the Trees at Elmridge A few seem to have the Latin plural only: as, arcanum, arcana; datum, data; effluvium, effluvia; erratum, errata; scholium, scholia. The Grammar of English Grammars The state of the vessel was such as cannot be described, and the fetid effluvia, arising from it, offended the senses on approaching her within fifty yards. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 374, June 6, 1829 Through these gaps and our floor we get an unpleasantly strong stable effluvium, especially when the wind is strong. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I The electric effluvium exhausted, all becomes still, even the wave, which in ordinary storms often remains agitated for a long time. The Man Who Laughs This he wheeled about the Reef, throwing two or three-shovels full on each offensive creature, thus getting rid of the effluvium and preparing a considerable store of excellent manure for his future husbandry. The Crater Was it from the effluvia arising from the dead bodies of their companions that they lived so long? The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829 Mrs. Baillie, in her recent Letters on Lisbon, says, "for three miles round Lisbon in every direction, you cannot for a moment get clear of the disgusting effluvia that issue from every house." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 400, November 21, 1829 The classical effluvium of inebriety mingled with the classical odour of the furnished lodging. Sacred and Profane Love Without effluvium a crowd of circumstances would remain enigmatic. The Man Who Laughs The vast cake of clay with which it was covered had swollen and cracked in an extraordinary manner, and emitted such a horrible effluvium that they both instantly retreated. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire Frequently, when passing at the distance of half a mile to leeward of a herd, I have perceived the whole air tainted with the effluvium. The Voyage of the Beagle Where a foot is placed an effluvium remains for a considerable time. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar The nasty grasses upon which he lay exuded the effluvium of sweaty bodies, of decayed animal matter and of offal. Son of Tarzan This is what magnetic effluvium, combined with terrestrial rotation and sidereal attraction, can alone explain. The Man Who Laughs Leonard remained by him for a short time, but, overpowered by the pestilential effluvia, and the sight of so many miserable objects, he was compelled to seek the open air. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire And when 'thas there collapsed, then the same power Of that effluvium takes from all its limbs The relics of its life. On the Nature of Things Dogs rub their noses on the ground till they bleed when they have touched the fluid, and even die of the vomiting produced by the effluvia. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains He could differentiate the innumerable species of the herbivora by scent, and he could tell, too, whether an animal was approaching or departing merely by the waxing or waning strength of its effluvium. Son of Tarzan It is in the fog of the one as in the light of the other; and in the flake of snow as in the streak of flame effluvium is visible. The Man Who Laughs In this dismal region it was found impossible to obtain a free circulation of air, and consequently the pestilential effluvia, unable to escape, acquired such malignancy, that it was almost certain destruction to inhale it. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire Thus, this telluric earth Out-streams with all these dread effluvia And breathes them out into the open world And into the visible regions under heaven. On the Nature of Things He suffered greatly from the abominable effluvia, and for thirty-six years afterward he remained completely deprived of the sense of smell. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine It has been attributed to the effluvium from hay, and to the pollen of certain plants. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section F, G and H It broke as much from the effect of effluvium as the violence of the wind. The Man Who Laughs But even this precaution could not counteract the horrible effluvia arising from it. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire One inhales the effluvia of the great black void. Les Misérables Suspicious enough in the beginning, the affair had now an exceeding evil smell—as repulsive figuratively as was the actual effluvium of the premises. The Bronze Bell And the fragrant air of the night was tainted with the vinous effluvium of his breath. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf I cannot but own the author opened an ample field for the effluvia of critic gall. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Or quick effluvia darting thro' the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain? The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems He reminded himself of its unlighted windows; of its sign, "To be let"; of the effluvia of desolation that had saluted him when the door swung wide. The Black Bag Dr. Halley compares the light of the tails of comets to the streams of the aurora borealis, and other electric effluvia. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Execrable ventilation or absence thereof manufactured an atmosphere that reeked with heat animal and artificial and with ill-blended effluvia from a hundred sources. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf It expresses the odour or effluvium which is constantly issuing from every animal, and especially when that animal is in more than usual exercise. The Dog The smell of escaping steam from these radiators, mingling with the fumes of tobacco and the effluvia from so many closely packed human bodies, made the air stifling. The Under Dog Like incense, heavy and pungent, the rich effluvia of stable-yards swirled in air made visible by its faint burden of mist. The Black Bag Or, quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain? The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Her journeys hitherto had been long wearisome pilgrimages in draughty third-class carriages, with noisy company, and in an atmosphere pervaded by a powerful effluvium of various kinds of alcohol. Henry Dunbar A Novel Hence appears the necessity for attention to ventilation, and especially to prevent the membrane of the nose from being habitually stimulated and debilitated by the effluvia generated in a close and hot kennel. The Dog They were cast, one by one, on the still burning though smothered flames, in the basement of the block, whence they sent up a cloud of their intolerable effluvia. The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish The faint effluvia of decomposing paper, leather, paste, and glue, were to Richard as the air of an ill-ventilated ward in the nostrils of a physician. There & Back The cause of the fetid effluvia emitted from this rock, when partially decomposed by means of friction, is now known to be connected with the presence of sulphuretted hydrogen. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time But presently they found them to be immense creatures in the form of rattlesnakes, poisoning the air with their vile effluvia, and destroying every green tree and living thing in their path. An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada If the puppies are numerous, and confined in close situations, the effluvia of their transpiration and fæcal discharges will often be productive of mange very difficult to be removed. The Dog The effluvia arising from a barrel of this beef, when opened, was intolerable. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale Among the close and dark recesses of the woods the air stagnates, and requires some violent storm to clear it of putrid effluvia, and render it fit for respiration. An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 This liquid I have seen poured into the hole from large bottles, after the necks were broken off, and have heard that it is used in France to prevent the effluvia rising from cemeteries. Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published The air for miles was poisoned by the effluvia emitted from the putrefying bodies of the dead. The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished The peculiar scent which his nostrils imbibe urges him eagerly to pursue but the moment he ceases to be conscious of the presence of the effluvium, he is at a perfect loss. The Dog The materials used in the air-loom by these pneumatic adepts are infinite; but principally effluvia of certain metals, poisons, soporific scents, etc. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day The atmosphere seemed to be charged with foul air: from the prison ships; and with the effluvia of dead bodies washed out of their graves by the tides. American Prisoners of the Revolution The most stinking example I know is that of a large hairy caterpillar I have found on dry wood in Patagonia, and which, when touched, emits an intensely nauseous effluvium. The Naturalist in La Plata If there remains the least effluvium of the fox, the hound will detect it. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton This effluvium, as the animal moves from place to place, is attracted and detained for a while by the substances with which it comes into contact, or it remains floating in the atmosphere. The Dog For example - a large class of diseases are the result of effluvia from decaying organic matter. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation It appeared damp as well as cold, and a sinister effluvium came from a place of necessity at the back. Prisoner for Blasphemy The water is exceedingly nauseous, and the effluvia arising from it unwholesome, but so buoyant, that gentlemen, who have made the attempt from curiosity, have found it impossible to sink. The World of Waters A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea Fish are on sale in large numbers, and as they are kept until sold, regardless of their condition, the effluvia of some of the fish markets can be very easily imagined. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young There is a poison-tree in the island of Java, which is said by its effluvia to have depopulated the country for 12 or 14 miles round the place of its growth. The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. The air was hot, and foul with cigarette smoke, sickening fumes of sizzling opium, effluvia of beer and spirits, sour reek of sweating flesh. Red Masquerade This is owing to a variety of causes; one of which probably is, that beds of this kind are better adapted to absorb and retain the effluvia of our bodies. The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health The communication of disease by contact, or by the inhalation of the effluvia of a sick person. A Practical Physiology The valley has the reputation of being very unhealthy, owing, I have no doubt, to the effluvia arising from the damp soil. Memoir of William Watts McNair Here, those viewless ministers of health—the fresh winds of heaven—had no free play; and poor human nature inhaled destruction from the poisonous effluvia that festered there. Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine For, according to this entertained notion, all bodies are continually emitting effluvia, more or less, around them, and some whether they are internal or external. Thaumaturgia They load the air with noxious effluvia or vapor, or with particles of dust; none of which ought ever to enter the delicate lungs of an infant. The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health The use of certain fumes to counteract contagious effluvia. A Practical Physiology There is ever a danger of the sensibilities and perceptive faculties becoming blunted by exposure to and familiarity with offensive effluvia. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 The filthy ooze from this was pouring out, just where its effluvium and its disease germs could pass without any hindrance through the crack. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Carbonic acid has no odor; but we are warned by the disagreeable effluvia of close sleeping-rooms of the other poison thus thrown into the air from the skin and lungs. American Woman's Home Bird and beast is not bird and beast, but emanation and effluvia of the minds and wills of men there present. Representative Men The thing was done; and the moment the first hatch was raised the sickening effluvium that issued from the hold proclaimed the truth. Stories by English Authors: the Sea The carnivorous and often herbivorous insects render another important service to man by consuming dead and decaying animal and vegetable matter, the decomposition of which would otherwise fill the air with effluvia noxious to health. The Earth as Modified by Human Action Thus also the air from cesspools and porous or broken drains finds its way, when an examination of the household entrance to the drain fails to reveal the cause of an existing effluvia. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics These varieties probably come from the practice of churning only at long intervals, and keeping the cream meanwhile in unventilated cellars or dairies, the air of which is loaded with the effluvia of vegetable substances. American Woman's Home Mr Johnson and I walked arm-in-arm up the High Street, to my house in James's court: it was a dusky night: I could not prevent his being assailed by the evening effluvia of Edinburgh. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Thus the atmosphere became a deadly poison to the next poor victim who was left to breathe the noxious effluvia of corruption and decay. Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal When the first case occurred, he was attending and dressing a limb extensively mortified from erysipelas, and went immediately to the accouchement with his clothes and gloves most thoroughly imbued with its effluvia. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Miasma is its synonym,—infecting effluvia floating in the air. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics In other cases, they are caused by personal contact with the diseased body or its clothing, as the itch or small-pox; or else by effluvia from the sick, as in measles. American Woman's Home All the air is filled with the pestilent effluvium of his nostrils. Dreams and Dream Stories Quickly he closed down the cover of the tube, but not before a vile effluvium seemed to escape, and penetrate even to us in our hiding places. The Exploits of Elaine I have often stood among a herd which had the distemper without being conscious of its presence from any particular effluvia. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Phenomena, Effluvia "A strange phenomena," "A disagreeable effluvia" are incorrect forms not infrequently met with. Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking As we approached the water, the effluvia from it was exceedingly offensive, and the ground became a soft, black muddy sand. Expedition into Central Australia It seemes to me that the holly tree delights in the effluvium of this fossil, which may serve as a guide to find it. The Natural History of Wiltshire The effluvium and the moans of several hundreds of wounded men greeted us. The New Book of Martyrs It has been imagined that the cow-pox is capable of being communicated from one person to another by effluvia without the intervention of inoculation. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Groping about in the stifling atmosphere, they discovered in one corner a mass of indescribable matter, from which arose, seemingly, the worst of the effluvia. The Unclassed Put into a nosegay its glittering blades streaked like a green-and-white netted dress; inexhaustible effluvia will stir in the bottom of your heart the budding roses that modesty crushes there. Balzac This hall and all the other rooms were lighted with lamps, of which the effluvia was most disagreeable, especially in the small ballroom. Haydn Will it suffice to cleanse throat and lungs, nauseated by the close effluvium of suppurating wounds? The New Book of Martyrs All my attempts, at least, to communicate it by effluvia have hitherto proved ineffectual. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Attracted by the effluvia from the dead meat, the Bluebottles haunt my laboratory, the windows of which are always open. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects Balzac asked his mother to touch the flannels only with paper, so as not to interfere with their effluvia. Balzac Attracted by the effluvia from the dead meat, the bluebottles haunt my laboratory, the windows of which are always open. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography II The little room adjoining the closet where I sleep has been set apart for those whose cries or effluvia make them intolerable to the rest. The New Book of Martyrs I will only say that the evidence appears to me altogether satisfactory that some most fatal series of puerperal fever have been produced by an infection originating in the matter or effluvia of erysipelas. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Perhaps the effluvia of the gamy tit-bit have reached them, coming from afar, imperceptible to any other sense than that of the Sexton-beetles. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects If there remains the least effluvium of the fox the hound will detect it. Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers Now the stocked pond will not be long in filling itself with gases unfit to breathe, with putrid effluvia and other animal refuse; it will become a sink in which life will have killed life. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography It was the mere effluvium of the flame, the subtle ether that it cast off as it passed, working on us, and making us feel strong as giants and swift as eagles. She For smell, voice, breath, and the like, are effluvia from animal bodies, and material parts that move the senses, which are wrought upon by their impulse. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies The pestilential effluvia arising from the dreadful mass was so overpowering that both shrank back, faint and sick, after a moment's survey. The Midnight Queen If they were tainted with any odorous effluvia, their absence will throw the Ants off the track. The Mason-Bees The others, the real knackers, wait for the meat to go bad; they are informed by the strength of the effluvia. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography He shook a musty effluvium from his piebald clothes, overturned my inkstand, and went on with his insufferable nonsense. Sixes and Sevens True, said I, but methinks there is some small track to the cause of this effect, if you come to the effluvia of bodies. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies The huge door swung back; but nothing was visible but a sort of black velvet pall, and effluvia much stronger than sweet. The Midnight Queen The odoriferous effluvia that can emanate from these relics certainly possess very diverse characters. The Mason-Bees And he breathed the breath of the house—a dank savour rather than a smell—a cold, musty effluvium as from underground vaults mingled with the reeking exhalations of linoleum and mildewed and rotten woodwork. The Four Million I will only say, that the evidence appears to me altogether satisfactory that some most fatal series of puerperal fever have been produced by an infection originating in the matter or effluvia of erysipelas. Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Yet we know some of Democritus's scholars affirm that, other worlds being dissolved, some strange effluvia fall into ours, and are the principle of new plagues and uncommon diseases. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Close to my house was an enclosed mudhole where three buffaloes were shut up every night, and the effluvia from which freely entered through the open bamboo floor. The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 This is an additional proof that malaria and offensive effluvia are not always companions. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 Or quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain? An Essay on Man It was a dusky night: I could not prevent his being assailed by the evening effluvia of Edinburgh. Travels through France and Italy My heart seemed to die within me when I entered this dismal bagnio, and found my brain assaulted by such insufferable effluvia. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Around it, above it, beneath it, in its vicinity—but never in it—hovers an ethereal aura, an effluvium so rarefied and delicate that only the Society for Psychical Research could note its origin. Strictly business: more stories of the four million In a number of instances offensive effluvia and fever seems to have no connection. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 There it is exposed to the sickness and disease, the effluvia and vile exhalations of overcrowded and rotten life, and next day it is carted about again to be sold. The People of the Abyss Immediately there was a well-contested round between the breath of the flowers and the able and active effluvium from gout liniment. Whirligigs The gods—though sometimes out of compassion they visit the interiors of houses—are not fond of such places and the evil effluvium they find there, and avoid them as much as they can. Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning I thought it was only the effluvia; few stand it as we do. Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes The coal-dust rotting sent out strong effluvia, and kept up the disease for more than a twelvemonth. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 This theory supposes the amulets to give off vapours or effluvia which penetrate into the body and effect a cure. Bygone Beliefs: being a series of excursions in the byways of thought |
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