Above all, do not stand about in this mephitic atmosphere.

No doubt this has something to do with the mephitic air of Albany.

You have evidence already of how such mephitic odour may act.

Some of the pools were clear; others, gravid and mephitic.

Or would the earth be uninhabitable from the mephitic products of universal decay?

The smell of methane and sewage hung in the air like a mephitic fog.

Now the Dragons were less than fifty yards away and their odor marched before them like a mephitic wall.

The rituals are repeated, the mephitic river risked, but only to find it finally uninspired.

The mephitic gases of that region intoxicate the brain.

The draft of dank, mephitic air grew stronger.

A mephitic heat like a whiff of air from hell came out of that dark place in which they were confined.

I accustomed myself to the mephitic stench.

At the car's center a small potbellied stove gave off insufficient heat, arid mephitic fumes.

My own nostrils were filled by a low fetid odour, mephitic and abominable.

Frankfurt itself was getting fuzzy- mephitic yellow-as the sun set over local three- and four-story buildings.

Mephitic gangrene had already set in.

And down they went along a narrow spiraling ramp and up rose the mephitic odors to greet them.

How it first became ignited is, of course, impossible to say - probably, I should think, from some spontaneous explosion of mephitic gases.

Despite the cold wet wind blowing in hard from the street, the cloud of mephitic vapours lingered stupefyingly about our heads.

They were in the mephitic cellar, with the two long wooden platforms where the subterranean trains land or load their freights.

The air he inhaled was no longer pure, but thick and mephitic, - he was in prison.

The sites often seem to have been chosen because the presence of naturally occurring mephitic vapors was thought to indicate an opening to the underworld.

Mephitic vapors rise from its waters, so that no life is found on its banks, and no birds fly over it.

It's not alone..." The word alone echoed back and forth around the mephitic brick burrows.

During the night, the mephitic vapors had accumulated low to the ground, and now the dim morning light gilded the turgid clouds, turning them opaque.