Rutherford called the gas (which we now know would have consisted primarily of nitrogen) "noxious air" or "phlogisticated air".

The shrine contained a statue of Venus, whose rites were probably meant to purify the culvert's polluted waters and noxious airs.

And there she saw the grinning face of Pyphoros rising up toward her like a bubble of noxious air seeking the surface.

She took a deep breath of the noxious air.

Clap your hands and insist that natural gas goes up in a puff of noxious air.

Silver moonlight streaming through a broken window caught the sword in a pure-white radiance that shredded the noxious green air.

Then the demon spirit was gone in a blast of noxious arctic air which blew Horst backwards.

A brisk blast of noxious air assaulted her nostrils, but at the last possible moment, the creature was pulled from its intercept course.

I do not know what had set it alight, but it obviously fed on that noxious air seeping from a fissure in the earth.

The stale, noxious air in his suit surged out through his collar ring.