| But the heat and mephitic vapors of his native isle revenged him. |
| 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. |
| Its mephitic influence in society is too palpable to be overlooked. |
| As I delved into the brittle and mephitic pages, my skepticism dropped away like scales from my eyes. |
| Lewis got half way down when a rank waft of acrid and mephitic air met him and half-choked him. |
| The air was full of a deafening roar, hysterical shouts, and mephitic curses. |
