| But why did all become so nasty in the last few years, so raucous, so mephitic? |
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| As I delved into the brittle and mephitic pages, my skepticism dropped away like scales from my eyes. |
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| Bilbao, once mouldering and mephitic, has never looked back. Other cities are following suit. |
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| Danish food companies produce the world's most nutritious mink food, a mephitic, fishy concoction. |
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| Considered in isolation from the controversies and ambiguities that surround Adams like a mephitic haze, the text itself is undoubtedly weird, but hardly interesting on its own terms. |
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| It made eminent sense to combat dangerous mephitic air and fetor with healthful fragrance from burning aromatic herbs. |
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| More than that, perhaps the worst thing, was a sort of mephitic fog, moistureless and invisible, that came and went like an exhalation of the arid earth itself. |
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