Fumes
['fjuːmɪz] or [fjumz]
Examples
- In the electric shop, motor-driven blowers carry fumes and dust away from the worker and bring fresh air in. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The daguerreotype was made on a thin sheet of copper, silver plated on one side, polished to a high degree of brilliancy, and made sensitive by exposing it to the fumes of iodine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Otherwise the fumes of powder could not have been blown so rapidly through the house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A draught from above brought the fumes of smoke to our nostrils. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- That let all the fumes and chemicals out and overcame the firemen; and there was the devil to pay. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Add that the water, being heated and rarefied by the subterraneous fires, may emit fumes, blasts, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Sir Leicester has a misgiving that there may be a hidden Wat Tylerish meaning in this expression, and fumes a little. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Entire absence of corrosive fumes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Miss Blenker, shaking off the fumes of sleep, looked at him with increasing interest. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The fumes of the phosphorus attack the teeth, especially when decayed, and penetrate to the jaw, causing its gradual destruction, but this has been avoided by proper precautions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The occupation, as at present conducted, is very unhealthy, for the fumes of the phosphorus produce a disease of a remarkable kind in the jaw-bone, which often proves fatal. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- By this means the gas is freed from the fumes of sulphuric acid vapour, and from the fine particles of chalk that become mingled with it during its sudden liberation. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He was coughing from the TNT fumes and he felt numb all through himself. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But these were objectionable on account of the fumes emitted. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was as though a cold air had dispersed the fumes of his libations, and the situation loomed before him black and naked as the ruins of a fire. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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