Effluvia

Our magic motor stopped, the doors swung open – and we must have been downwind because a certain effluvia crept over us. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The watering of the Cairo streets of late years has been excessive; they are now lines of mud in summer as well as in winter and the effluvia from the droppings of animals have, combined with other causes, seriously deteriorated the once charming climate. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Just as it is necessary to renew the air round a sick person frequently, to carry off morbid effluvia from the lungs and skin, by maintaining free ventilation, so is it necessary to keep the pores of the skin free from all obstructing excretions. ❋ Unknown (1860)

Of the fatal effects of the effluvia from the excreta it would seem unnecessary to speak, were they not so constantly neglected. ❋ Unknown (1860)

Public Access cable channels have allowed areas throughout the nation feature horror host spinoffs, and they’re the fun ones — the ubernerds of today, whacked-out geeks like yours truly whose creativity leads to the creation of a horrorshow persona and the showcasing of random effluvia from the underbelly of American cinema. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The effluvia are a rank offense to the sensibilities of the fastidious Joru, whose breathing equipment concentrates oxygen from the ambient atmosphere of exotic worlds and tends to amplify smells as well. ❋ May, Julian (2001)

Man, those gigs where you get all the effluvia are the sweetest ones. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Whether these odoriferous particles attend the perspirable matter in consequence of the increased action of the capillary glands, and can properly be called excrementitous; that is, whether any thing is eliminated, which could be hurtful if retained; or whether they may only contain some of the essential oil of the animal; like the smell, which adheres to one's hand on stroking the hides of some dogs; or like the effluvia, which is left upon the ground, from the feet of men and other creatures; and is perceptible by the nicer organs of the dogs, which hunt them, may admit of doubt. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

After awhile, I got over that a little and could admit it was pretty compelling, if overly interested in "effluvia," I made jokes about poop-punk for weeks, because it's ridiculous how much feces are in that book, even the magical evil substance is actually alien feces and fascinating, even if I hate what he does to his sole female character with substantial screentime. ❋ Yuki_onna (2009)

According to Sydenham, epidemics had different constitutions depending upon “an occult and inexplicable alteration in the very bowels of the earth, whence the air becomes contaminated by the kind of effluvia which deliver and determine the human bodies to this or that disease” (Opera, 1844). ❋ OWSEI TEMKIN (1968)

As long ago as 1716, [366] Halley had conjectured that the Northern Lights were due to magnetic "effluvia," but there was no evidence on the subject forthcoming until Hiorter observed at Upsala in 1741 their agitating influence upon the magnetic needle. ❋ Unknown (1874)

The construction is very condensed here; "effluvia" may be regarded like "touch" as a subject of "were given" (l. 195); but one would expect rather a phrase to denote a keener sense of smell than man now possesses. ❋ Alexander Pope (1716)

When I came on Saturday evening to see my wife and child, Mr. Symmes desired me, as I was older than any of his black men, to take an iron pick and go and open the vault, which I accordingly did, by cutting away the mortar, and removing a few bricks from one side of the building; but I could not remove more than three or four bricks before I was obliged, by the horrid effluvia which issued at the aperture, to retire. ❋ Charles Ball (1859)

There it is exposed to the sickness and disease, the effluvia and vile exhalations of overcrowded and rotten life, and next day it is carted about again to be sold. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Low Brow's bubbling up from a bittersweet, narcotic effluvia of real peeps-under-pressure sweat flops and pheromones. ❋ Bill Bush (2011)

[t-loc's] effluvia reeks like yo mama's 3 week [old egg] and [corned beef hash] casserole. ❋ Edwon Tiger (2008)