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In this respect his influence is salutary. It is like a cool and wholesome breeze blowing away all miasmic vapors, and there is a positively exhilarating quality in his firm assumption of the power of the human being over his material. His workmen are men of strong muscle and prompt brain.
But Petrograd in the hands of the Bolsheviks was worth more to the Germans than in their own; for a German occupation of the capital would have sterilized its miasmic influence over the rest of Russia, and the Germans had only advanced so far in order to get into touch with Finland and establish pro-German governments among the little nationalities of the Baltic littoral.
But it was a better path by far than any we could have beaten out for ourselves, and we all except the cook were well pleased that we had taken it. The bushes and tall grasses, which shut us in, prevented our seeing the ocean behind us or the hills ahead, and the miasmic mist that we had noticed some time since billowed around our knees.
A sickening miasmic odour rose from the low flat country sloping off toward the Adriatic the smell of overripe fruit, of decaying vegetation, of the harvest grown old. There had been a drought, and now the dust rose thick and heavy, making the mules and travellers cough, and the latter cover their faces.
How could a pure girl breathe the miasmic atmosphere which must emanate from the soul of this abominable woman? It was terrible! The desultory commonplace chat went on, whilst de Loubersac was considering how best to act. Arrest Bobinette? Yes. He must not, dare not, hesitate. It was his duty.
These waters are miasmic. They are full of snakes, too. It was just now that I stepped on one." "Snakes, eh?" said Cellette, pausing again. "I don't believe you. But snakes!" She shuddered, and then looked as though she were going to cry with disappointment. "Don't you mind just this once, Cellette," cried Lewis, blowing like a walrus as he held his place against the current.
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