"Miasmal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... industry in the Basin demonstrate. But it continues, and will continue as long as communities keep looking on industry as a source of payrolls only, free of sin: "It smells like money," some residents of one Shenandoah town say of their factory's miasmal odor, though other ...
— The Nation's River - The Department of the Interior Official Report on the Potomac • United States Department of the Interior
... contribute to the cause. And when on turning towards the window he caught sight of the basilica of the Sacred Heart, he could not explain what insanity had at one moment cone over him, and set him dreaming of idiotic and useless destruction. Some miasmal gust must have swept by, something born of want that scattered germs of anger and vengeance. But how blind it was to think that destruction and murder could ever bear good fruit, ever sow the soil with plenty and happiness! Violence cannot last, and all it does is to rouse man's ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... as white as snow, By all the martyr'd virgins kiss, While the True Church remains below Wrapt in the old miasmal mist. ...
— Poems • T. S. [Thomas Stearns] Eliot |
