miasma

"You do not want the miasma on your hands," he always said.

I do not know if even he will be strong enough to push the miasma away from himself.

No one had taken sick for more than a week now, so maybe they'd left the bad water and the miasmas behind them.

If someone were exposed to the miasma, they could get the disease.

President Bush has been struggling with a miasma of health and political problems this week.

Everybody knows these black miasmas of yours can run for weeks.

At the very least they need each other economically as the political miasma continues.

There was nothing to be seen but a miasma that came up from the swamp like a physical thing.

Suddenly, a voice cut through the miasma of shock and suffering.

In this miasma of voices, which were to be trusted?

But this London life is played out nightly in a miasma.

I could smell his fear like a miasma of sweat.

Indeed, I wondered if the miasma might not turn out to be segregation itself.

The miasma must be so strong around her now.

At the time the disease was believed to be caused by "miasma," or bad air.

To the Dutch judge the case was a miasma of fact and fantasy.

But the noise it had created hung in the air like a miasma.

And yet there was, all about him, a faint miasma of discomfort.

Clearly we need to examine this miasma with a different kind of microscope.

Thoughts for the dead would burst through the miasma like weeds.

Even up here in the clean, fresh air the miasma of pain could be sensed.

It had changed into a miasma of potential grief which was unlikely even to start.

"Miasma will tell against your health, lad, in the long run."

They reflected the poverty which hung over them like a miasma.

Now all he can do is "slog through the miasma of daily life."