To pacify his wife, who was very sorry for him, I gave him some "Cockle's Pills" and the trapper's remedy of "a pint of hot water with a pinch of cayenne pepper," and left him moaning and bundled up under a pile of futons, in a nearly hermetically sealed room, with a hibachi of charcoal Vitiating the air.
"Unbeaten-Tracks-in-Japan"
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
But we are learning to-day that metre is not only an unnecessary element in poetry, but often an artificial, hampering encumbrance, frequently Vitiating the poetical quality of a poem.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
If the individual enjoyment is not a social enjoyment, it is disorderly and Vitiating.
"Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School"
Elizabeth P. Peabody