effluvium

• Throughout these preliminaries, Mr. Conducis had remained, as it were, the mere effluvium: far from anxious and so potent that a kind of plushy assurance seemed to permeate the last detail of renaissance in The Dolphin. —  Killer Dolphin - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 24
• And then she looked round the room as if some effluvium were forming, and mentioned the chill when she'd crossed the doorsill. —  Martha Grimes - The Old Silent
• The whole had been an effluvium which was unique Doc opened the clothes hamper where he had left unconscious Roxey Vail Emptiness stared at him Doc dropped to a knee. —  004 - The Polar Treasure
• It's insulting frankly, and the only reason why these forked tongued reporters agreed to write such effluvium is so that they can really sink their teeth into some real Met bashing stories down the line. —  MetsBlog.com
• It's too broadly parodic of too many things: the trivialization of abortion, modern art's fascination with effluvium, amoral academic culture justified as a form of faux-profound "consciousness-raising," etc etc etc. —  The Jawa Report

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