As in the cabin, however, so here I found this noxiousness of air was not caused by putrefaction or any tainting qualities of a vegetable or animal kind, but by the deadness of the pent-up air itself, as the foulness of bilge-water is owing to its being imprisoned from air in the bottom of the hold.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
Until that quarrel, the exceeding noxiousness of the Papal doctrine had not clearly presented itself to Mr. Moze.
"The Lion's Share"
E. Arnold Bennett
I take it to be one of the forms of noxiousness which a good citizen is bound to extirpate.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith