air up

“The only way of really nursing a real patient is to have an iron bedstead, with rheocline springs, which are permeable by the air up to the very mattress (no vallance, of course), the mattress to be a thin hair one; the bed to be not above 3 1/2 feet wide.”

Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not

““More likely,” said Viscount Skellhaven, with an evil grin, “the air up there will be so sodden we’ll be hard put to strike a light, even with tarnsticks.”

Conqueror's Moon

“We are living on the Palatine because there is nothing wrong with the air up here," said Clitumna, turning her back.”

The First Man in Rome