| 1. | "These appearances, which bewilder you, are merely electrical phenomena not uncommon--or it may be that they have their ghastly origin in the rank miasma of the tarn. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 2. | All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors everywhere is putrescence and miasma here and there are breathing-holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | After the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and traps after chaos, the sewer. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |