It is not that they are dirty inside-the floor may be scrubbed, the walls brushed, the chairs clean, and the beds tidy; it is from outside that all the noisome exhalations taint the breeze.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
The pale and ghastly people, toiling among vile exhalations, looked more like demons than human beings; the clanking wheels and engines, seen through the murky atmosphere, looked like instruments of torture in this pandemonium.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
In other places he draws attention to the class of facts which have been the basis of the modern science of geology,-such as the mark of rivers slowly wearing away their banks,-of walls on the sea-shore mouldering from the long-continued effects of the exhalations from the sea,-of the fall of great rocks from the mountains under the wear and tear of ages.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar