| 单词 | mephitic |
| 例句 | A lake of molten sulphur extended the length of an immense canyon, releasing its mephitic vapors in sudden gusts and belches and barring the way of the solitary winged figure who stood at its edge. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z These moments of reckoning—in which something that once felt exciting begins to seem noxious, mephitic, dangerous—are important to heed. A Quest to Rename the Williamsburg Bridge for Sonny Rollins 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z In a passage removed by Paine, Twain excoriates “the iniquitous Cuban-Spanish War” and Gen. Leonard Wood’s “mephitic record” as governor general in Havana. Mark Twain?s Unexpurgated Autobiography 2010-07-10T01:43:00Z They invariably come laden with words that seem meant to prove his vocabulary is bigger than yours: flocculent, crapulent, caducous, anaglypta, mephitic, velutinous. With His New Mystery Novel, John Banville Kills Off a Pen Name 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Like a mephitic vapor from a sword-and-sandals epic, it slips under the door frame and into your head. We’re Holding Tight to Our Good Luck Talismans 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z The Ivy League universities and their peer institutions are, for Will, the mephitic swamp from which most of what he detests in politics and culture emanates. Review | Woke academics, Donald Trump and George Will’s ire 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Congress, attempting investigations, will be lost in the thick, mephitic cloud of scandal, dodging rogue tweets as they come in. Opinion | Nostalgia for the well-run machine of the Trump administration 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z That mephitic swamp still produces the odd belch. Suing to Profit From a Nazi’s Diaries 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Danish food companies produce the world’s most nutritious mink food, a mephitic, fishy concoction. Schumpeter: Adventures in the skin trade 2014-05-01T15:00:11Z To these springs, which are warm and slightly sulphureous, and to the “Plutonium”—a hole reaching deep into the earth, from which issued a mephitic vapour—the place owed its celebrity and sanctity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z For his great-brained, stout-hearted, iron-willed Father, the stormy period was congenial: but for his son the atmosphere was mephitic; as the Editor's 'Preface to the Learned Reader,' in his 'character' of him, suggests. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:22.977Z The rodents get acclimatised, unless it be that instinct impels them to take some sort of vegetable or other preventive of zymotic and mephitic diseases. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 13, 1872 2011-12-12T03:00:30.070Z There is a terribly mephitic vapour over everything. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z The air, already mephitic, became more and more impure. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z But in that martyrdom for the dawn of a new life, there is greater happiness than in the dusk, mephitic air, ashes and mould of graves. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z The atmosphere was mephitic and close, and in the dusty inn parlour the flies swarmed uncomfortably, while outside it was horribly dusty, as it is even to-day. The Strange Story of Rab R?by 2011-07-17T02:00:30.943Z Such a man never ascends above the dense, mephitic vapors of the sin-laden world, nor takes into his soul the slightest breath of pure, vitalizing air. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z When it was in motion, there was a grateful rush of air; when at pause, the heat was stifling and the fumes of cigarettes, pipes, and cheap cigars blended to manufacture a mephitic reek. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z But thou, man! how often dost thou hang down over nature as a pestilential and mephitic vapor! The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z The region's most important city Bilbao, once a mephitic industrial hole, now bristles with civic pride. Basque country's thriving big society 2011-03-30T07:00:05Z What is life? the absorption of vapours mephitic, The bursting of sunlight on senses and brain. Riding Recollections, 5th ed. 2011-03-10T03:00:52.223Z A foul artery fed with the virus of the East—beings whose faces were mottles of yellow and brown and chocolate black upon the mephitic gloom. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z As I leaned over the hole I saw her disappearing among a confusion of oozy piles; and shuddering with the chill of the mephitic air that came pouring up, I drew back. One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z Go where they would, there was the same dull, damp, mephitic odour; dust and cobwebs, and mildew everywhere. Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season 2010-12-20T17:11:47.497Z Formerly the gloom of its forest surroundings and its mephitic exhalations caused it to be regarded as the entrance to the infernal regions. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Then the Pythia was seated on a tripod, placed in the middle of the sanctuary, over an opening in the ground whence mephitic vapors were escaping. Greek Women Ammoniac ammoniac Aërated, effervescing, mild, or mephitic volatile alkali. Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries Meantime, what became of the unfortunate women who had no kind companion to purvey for them blankets and pillows from the mephitic sleeping-car, and cups of hot tea from unknown sources, Miselle cannot conjecture. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 The antiphonal crying of the owls sounded over the bubbling swamp, the mephitic perfume hung like a vapor on the shore. Wild Oranges The warm, sluggish air lay about him, mephitic in its touch. Carmen Ariza Now here it was again, more mephitic than ever, and for the whiffs of it with which Jeroloman was spraying him, he hated the man. The Paliser case Soda soda Aërated or effervescing fixed mineral alkali, mephitic soda. Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries The only terms in common use are, fixed air, mephitic, and inflammable. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air The bolt of a massive door creaked, and they entered a mephitic in-pace, where the dim light revealed between rings fastened to the wall a blood-stained rack, a brazier, and a jug. Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories In a word, the political atmosphere, theretofore foul and mephitic, became suddenly charged with purer, healthier elements—Bülow’s plot was thwarted and Giolitti’s rôle played out. England and Germany Some gas shells had been discharged that day, and the air in places was quite heavy with the odour of them—not unpleasant to smell, but most mephitic, and apt to make your eyes water. War Letters of a Public-School Boy Magnesia magnesia Aërated, effervescing, mild, or mephitic magnesia. Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries A number of air-bubbles were separated, but probably not of the mephitic kind, for no precipitation ensued in the lime water. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air Many other remarkable illustrations might be quoted; as for instance the web of the Spider, the pit of the Ant Lion, the mephitic odour of the Skunk. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In It surrounded the Pope of Rome with philo-German dignitaries, gave him an Austrian as adviser, and permeated the Vatican with an atmosphere of Kultur which even pious Catholics of non-Teuton countries avoid as mephitic. England and Germany But ever the air grew thick with mephitic darkness, ever a hollow voice was heard calling: "Touch not the beautiful form of the sorceress; she leads to sin!" Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 It was no longer air, but a mephitic stench that choked us with disgusting fumes. The Crack of Doom As a last, but almost hopeless, effort, I advised the injection of clysters of mephitic air. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air A mephitic weasel or skunk, an animal which somewhat resembles a polecat, came running by. Adventures of a Young Naturalist And coevally with these dreamers of grand socialistic improvement, we are met by such evidence as that of Wall Street, its air foul with the mephitic exhalations that rise from dead and rotting principle. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 The air of Benchers’ Inn is not particularly good; but it’s better than this mephitic odour of stuffiness and gas. Witness to the Deed Andreas Döderlein had been engaged as her musical adviser: now she could rave and go into ecstasies and hypnotise her impotent soul in the mephitic air of artificial aroma just as much as she pleased. The Goose Man I have not yet been so fortunate in any one case, as to effect a cure; although the use of mephitic air has been accompanied with proper internal medicines. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air So be lavish and effusive in suggesting A malignant and mephitic atmosphere, And you're sure to be applauded as arresting, Elemental, unalluring and sincere. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914 First one and then another endeavoured to ascend, but with a strength unequal to the task, they fell back into the mephitic abyss. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 May gods be pliant, And grant me this: that poison—pest Light on 'em all, and on that client Who sent 'em you; and you in jest Transfer them, odious, and mephitic, And execrable. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 There, having for a short time inhaled the mephitic vapour, he felt as if he had received a sudden blow on the head, and sank down insensible. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 The injection of mephitic air into the intestines, under these circumstances, bids fair to be highly serviceable. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air A stairway descending apparently to the bowels of the earth was disclosed, and from the sombre depths escaped a flow of damp, mephitic air. Monte-Cristo's Daughter In 1750 ecclesiastical far-sightedness, court intrigue, and family ambitions, were actively preparing the way for the Austrian alliance in the mephitic air of Versailles. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot The air was warm and charged with a pungent, almost mephitic odor. The Winged Men of Orcon A Complete Novelette Ideas inculcated from childhood have a powerful influence, and the various ideas exposed above would have an undoubted influence in minimizing the mephitic, destructive effects of the feeling of jealousy. Woman Her Sex and Love Life Fixed air, under the form of clysters, was injected every second or third hour; and directions were given to supply the patient plentifully with water, artificially impregnated with mephitic air. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air Had he inhaled some mephitic gas which had overcome him? Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track A huge bat flapped its sail-like wings in my face, and returned again and again, breathing a mephitic odour that caused me to gasp. The Rifle Rangers We then moved cautiously but rapidly forward, hand-in-hand, meeting with no difficulty or inconvenience during our passage, excepting such as arose from the mephitic atmosphere. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War In the farther end there was a stage, upon which mephitic females displayed their physical lures, to come down and sell drinks at a commission in the house, and dance with the patrons, at intervals. Trail's End The term mephitic is equally applicable to what is called fixed air, to that which is inflammable, and to many other kinds; since they are equally noxious, when breathed by animals. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air “What do you mean, sir?” cried Panton, whom the exposure to the mephitic gases had left irritable and strange. Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track The air doesn't smell bad," he remarked; "close and musty, but no mephitic vapours. Jack Haydon's Quest The stove-devil glared at us through his one glazed eye, and puffed out his mephitic welcome as I shut the door. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Rabbi Hirschberg wrote, "Darwin's volume is plausible to the unthinking person; but a deeper insight shows a mephitic desire to overthrow the Mosaic books and to bury Judaism under a mass of fanciful rubbish." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Two similar instances of the salutary effects of mephitic air, thus administered, have occurred also in my own practice, the history of which I shall briefly lay before the reader. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air The "fire-mist" and the mephitic vapors were finally swept away; another era was preparing. Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Then the Duke and the others descended, and as they did so they became conscious of a choking mephitic vapour which clung dank and heavy to the lower courses of the tower. The Black Douglas In the little pause the fire burned low between us, and the shadows deepened in the burrow cavern until they strangled the eye as mephitic vapors scant a man of breath. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady Many lay where they had fallen, while their comrades, absolutely helpless against this diabolical agency, rushed madly out of the mephitic mist and made for the rear, over-running the lines of trenches behind them. Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries If mephitic air be thus capable of correcting purulent matter in the lungs, we may reasonably infer it will be equally useful when applied externally to foul ulcers. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air Natural histories are replete with anecdotes of which this animal is the mephitic hero, and volumes might be filled to the glory of his strong-smelling qualities. Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making He could not breathe because of the mephitic gases of imperialism and militarism. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe A deluge of rain has drenched the land, from which mephitic vapours rise to clog our spirits. Four Months Besieged The Story of Ladysmith Wading through the mephitic rottenness of these ancient chronicles, one is seized with nausea. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation But he is riveted to this horrible existence as the galley-slave to his chain; he can breathe no other air than this mephitic atmosphere; he can lead no other life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 The houses were filthy; the streets so disgusting that on days when there was no wind to disperse the mephitic vapours, prudent people kept their windows shut. The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London These philosophers consider men in their experiments no more than they do mice in an air-pump or in a recipient of mephitic gas. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) Over their tops rise faint wreaths of yellowish clouds and the mephitic odor becomes more pronounced. Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance The wreck was removed from the skylight, and under the water, in that dense chamber, stagnant with mephitic air, the bruised, stupefied hong was found. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 I routed him out, in the dim mephitic place reeking of sour bedding, and put Petersen in his charge. Jaffery And the effects of this mephitic air may prove more durable than the contribution of its creators to the political reorganization of Europe. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Lewis got half way down when a rank waft of acrid and mephitic air met him and half-choked him. A Dream of the North Sea The trees are less leafy, the undergrowth is less dense, and a mephitic odor pervades the air. Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance Masses of the population are allowed to live crowded together in unwholesome dens, half poisoned by the mephitic air of the neighbourhood. Thrift In fact of nearly every style Of smoke I was a kindly critic, Though I had found Manillas vile, And Trichinopolis mephitic. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 30, 1892 It was no rush of air, sending life tingling in the blood made brilliant with carmine of oxidation, but the dense, mephitic sough of the thick wool of water. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 The illusion will be heightened by characteristic scenery and mephitic exhalations. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy From the rear of the ravine in which we lay, billows of dark mephitic mist were rolling forward, surrounding us with their baleful influence. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Its mephitic influence in society is too palpable to be overlooked. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Most of the dwellers in this atmosphere are punctilious about money payments because they durst not be otherwise, but the fine flower of real probity does not flourish in the mephitic air. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Naturally, they exhale mephitic odours, though the people won't acknowledge it. Promenades of an Impressionist The bolt of a massive door creaked, and they entered a mephitic in-pace, where the dim light revealed between rings fastened to the wall a bloodstained rack, a brazier, and a jug. Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories Though the lower stratum of air in the Dog’s Grotto had been highly mephitic, the atmosphere here was more stifling still. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy Jevons refers to some of these as "mephitic exhalations from the bogs of perverted imaginings!" Primitive Love and Love-Stories It was not my place, I thought, and thus their bones are bleaching, and the memory of their names has flown away like a mephitic vapour that was better dispersed. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour We remembered your lessons, father, and made some experiments to discover if it contained mephitic air. The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island A political dinner of thirty colleagues, male and female, in the dog-days is only a shade less intolerable than the greasy rations and mephitic vapours of the House of Commons' dining-room. Collections and Recollections An unexpected opportunity of personally investigating a highly nauseous kind of mephitic vapor drew me and Jones suddenly hither without time to say farewell or make explanations. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 How it first became ignited is, of course, impossible to say -- probably, I should think, from some spontaneous explosion of mephitic gases. Allan Quatermain Not where gape the misty jaws Of caverned Taenarus, the gloomy bound Of either world, through which the nether kings Permit the passage of the dead to earth, So poisonous, mephitic, hangs the air. Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars The mephitic gases of that region intoxicate the brain. Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories Another critic spoke of persons accepting the Darwinian views as "under the frenzied inspiration of the inhaler of mephitic gas," and of Darwin's argument as "a jungle of fanciful assumption." History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom From this crawling flapping mass of obscene reptilian life came the shocking clamor which filled the air and the mephitic, horrible, musty odor which turned us sick. The Lost World Or would the earth be uninhabitable from the mephitic products of universal decay? The Poison Belt It is five-and-twenty years since my father and mother, who were both among the first arrivals at the Kenia, escaped from the mephitic atmosphere of human misery, the degradation of man by man. Freeland A Social Anticipation Evidently the author had himself breathed the mephitic air of eighteenth-century skepticism. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller It is true that an eruptive activity of evil, beyond what was witnessed by our forefathers, has attended and followed that convulsion; as mephitic exhalations are emitted through the rents of an earthquake. An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance Conceive yourself confronted by a pop-gun, some ten feet in diameter, charged with mephitic vapours and plugged with microbes of typhoid fever. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc The poison may be a mere stratum or layer in the ether—a mephitic Gulf Stream across that mighty ocean in which we float. The Poison Belt Its scent, as of something sneaking, furtive, mephitic, seems to lingeringly pervade all modern literature, conversation, and manners. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Eyes were turning inwards, and the age of sober thinking was past and over for the time being, since the Orient began to infect the world with the mephitic vapours of self-consciousness. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia These latter, so environed, would be in a condition too like that of a candle in the mephitic air of a vault. An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance When Sommers turned to look back, the boulevard disappeared in the vague, murky region of mephitic cloud, beneath which the husbands of those women were toiling, striving, creating. The Web of Life But do you really find the air so light and pure in this by right mephitic time of August, with those close calles, pestilential lagunes, etc., etc., and all that our informants frighten us with? From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 I figure it this way: The mephitic gas probably was heavy and dense, thus keeping to the lower air-strata, following them, over plain and hill and mountain, like a blanket of death. Darkness and Dawn Such were the actual amount of sacred edifices which, through all their dust, and garbage, and mephitic morasses, these miserable vassals had to thread all but every night of the week. Autobiographical Sketches The whole atmosphere of trade was mephitic with chicane. Equality How many fine natures, cultivated, delicate, and generous, have gone forth from their native land, full of high resolves, only to perish in the mephitic atmosphere of a colony! The Bushman — Life in a New Country I should suppose that he will not be very long lived, for the repeated doses of this mephitic vapour must surely accelerate his dissolution. After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 Slimy and damp it was, with a mephitic smell and ugly pools of water settled in the ancient road-bed. Darkness and Dawn He freights the columns of the press With praise and blame alike mephitic, And names the burden a critique— And that's the oyster-supper critic. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 39, December 24, 1870. The town possessed several natural wonders--sacred springs, stalactite grottoes, and a deep cavern remarkable for its mephitic exhalations. Seekers after God Machination, macrocosm, magisterial, magniloquent, maladroit, malfeasance, malignity, malleable, mandate, matutinal, medieval, mephitic, mercenary, mercurial, meretricious, metamorphose, meticulous, microcosm, misanthropic, misogyny, misprision, mitigate, monitor, mortuary, mundane, mutable. The Century Vocabulary Builder The word "Scourer," nevertheless, might be an allowable corruption of "Esquire," when applied to any of the proprietors of that mephitic daily, The Sun. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870 They become there the more productive, as the lands, newly cleared and surrounded by forests, are in contact with an atmosphere damp, stagnant, and loaded with mephitic exhalations. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Maddened by mephitic vapours streaming from a cleft in the rock, convulsed in every feature and every limb, she delivered in semi- articulate cries the burden of the divine message. The Greek View of Life Has a mephitic odor been changed to a sweet savor by the subtle alchemy of the musical composer? Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time They were in the mephitic cellar, with the two long wooden platforms where the subterranean trains land or load their freights. A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus Slowly, a strange mephitic vapor seemed to exhale into the room— or was it my heightened imagination? The War Terror The caverns in mountains of gypsum often contain mephitic emanations and deleterious gases. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 For he saw, with a touch of compunction, that in the mephitic air of her surroundings a love-story of surprising freshness had miraculously flowered. The Hermit and the Wild Woman Those people had disquieted his composure with their mephitic rant about philanthropy; they had almost succeeded in spoiling his morning. South Wind I can still see nothing but lurid patches of gaslight on a background of solid mephitic fume. The Emancipated You have evidence already of how such mephitic odour may act. The Jewel of Seven Stars Further than this the senator's observation did not carry him, for the close, almost mephitic atmosphere of the place already began to affect him unfavourably. Antonina There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate. For the Term of His Natural Life These philosophers consider men in their experiments no more than they do mice in an air-pump, or in a recipient of mephitic gas. Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke Already down there, amid slaughtered oxen and dead horses under a burning sun, a horrible pest-hole had been formed which sent its mephitic vapours over the countryside. The Great Boer War A strange mephitic odor seemed to come from sodden leaves and mosses that began to ooze under their feet. Sally Dows The last of the old Gods and the first of the modern Titans;—before Pelion leapt on Ossa; and the foul Earth taking fire at last, its vile mephitic elements went up in volcanic thunder. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 01 Cerizet occupied one room on the ground-floor and another in the entresol, to which he mounted by an interior staircase; this entresol looked out upon a horrible paved court, from which arose mephitic odors. The Lesser Bourgeoisie They were simply the last traces left by the torrent which had so long thundered through this cavity, and the air there was pure though slightly damp, but producing no mephitic exhalation. The Mysterious Island The air he inhaled was no longer pure, but thick and mephitic,—he was in prison. The Count of Monte Cristo |
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