Now, added to the natural body odors of the tight-packed building was a whole new menagerie of effluvia generated by excitement and fatigue. |
The air already smelled of a range of human effluvia plus some of their delicate sweat. |
Soon bodily effluvia and contaminated clothing are everywhere in Sunderland, and so is the epidemic. |
Much of the supply came downstream from a sewage outlet, which received effluvia from not only households, but abattoirs, hospitals, tanneries and the like. |
I was inhaling ancient molecular effluvia of dimetrodons and plesiosaurs, pterodactyls and tyrannosauruses. |
At least since the early 19th century, physicians have been concerned about the mental effects of industrial effluvia. |