effluvia

Example Sentences

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Effluvia of a pestilential nature assailed me from every corner.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

Effluvia of these doings drifted necessarily to the Comptons.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 by Various

"The same to you and many of them," said His Effluvia politely, and withdrew.

From Love, Life & Work Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others by Hubbard, Elbert

One theory put forward for the supposed medical value of amulets was the Doctrine of Effluvia.

From Bygone Beliefs: being a series of excursions in the byways of thought by Redgrove, H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley)

Phenomena, Effluvia "A strange phenomena," "A disagreeable effluvia" are incorrect forms not infrequently met with.

From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by Bechtel, John Hendricks