As this latter observation was addressed to the Circumambient air, and not immediately to Jack, it elicited no response.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith
The Year 1665 was the last that we can say the Plague raged in London, which might happen from the Destruction of the City by Fire, the following Year 1666, and besides the Destroying the Eggs, or Seeds, of those poisonous Animals, that were then in the stagnating Air, might likewise purifie that Air in such a Manner, as to make it unfit for the Nurishment of others of the same Kind, which were swimming or driving in the Circumambient Air: And again, the Care that was taken to enlarge the Streets at their Rebuilding, and the keeping them clean after they were rebuilt, might greatly contribute to preserve the Town from Pestilence ever since.
"The Plague at Marseilles Consider'd"
Richard Bradley
They were taken as evidence of a Circumambient X-region where the laws of mechanics were set at defiance and where the fetters of time and place were loosened or cast aside.
"The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)"
George Tyrrell