In the fifth place, the State ought to take measures to wean the people not only from noxious forms of expenditure, like the expenditure on strong drink, but from useless and wasteful expenditure, and to guide them into a more economic, far-going, and beneficial employment of the earnings they make.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Those who study the physical sciences, and bring them to bear upon the health of man, tell us that if the noxious particles that rise from vitiated air were palpable to the sight, we should see them lowering in a dense black cloud above such haunts, and rolling slowly on to corrupt the better portions of a town.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
In other times how little he had cared for the noxious insects of the woods.
"Landolin"
Berthold Auerbach