miasma

• Even through the unease that hung about him like a miasma, a tall Zamoran beauty with arrogance enough for a score of kings had a way of intruding on his thoughts when he was not careful. —  Conan The Magnificent
• When he opened the box, an aching unease stole out of it like a miasma. —  This Scepter'd Isle
• The offal stench of the abattoir rose like a miasma, and blood, dark as oil, began to flood the room. —  Second Skin
• Still the Aspasia_, from the precautions which had been taken, in fumigating, and avoiding all unnecessary contact with the shipping and the shore, had for nearly a fortnight escaped the infection; but the miasma was at last wafted to the frigate, and in the course of one night fifteen men, who were in health the preceding evening, before eight o'clock on the following morning were lying in their hammocks under the half-deck. —  The King's Own
• Still the _Aspasia_, from the precautions which had been taken, in fumigating, and avoiding all unnecessary contact with the shipping and the shore, had for nearly a fortnight escaped the infection; but the miasma was at last wafted to the frigate, and in the course of one night fifteen men, who were in health the preceding evening, before eight o'clock on the following morning were lying in their hammocks under the half-deck. —  The King's Own

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