Vents in the floor of the chamber released pungent steam; she estimated the temperature to be somewhere above forty now.

If pressed too closely, the traeki just vented a little pungent steam, and even the most agitated citizen gave er room.

Thin wisps of pungent steam rose into the air with each footstep, and fish floated, belly up, to the surface.

The scent of herbs also mingled with the steam, sweet and pungent by turns, burned on a small brazier tended by a silent man in grey; and from somewhere out of sight, a pleasant tenor voice chanted Psalms in oddly inflected Latin.

Rupen drew an iron loggerhead from out of the hearthfire, blew off the ash, then plunged the glowing metal into a silver mug of the spiced canary, creating a hiss and a cloud of pungent steam.

Harold again plunged a glowing loggerhead into his drink, sending up a hissing cloud of pungent steam.

The hotel varied from an ancient barrow to a hot springs (I smelled warm pungent steam) to a glass-sided skyscraper to a vertical slab of black basalt to an enormous pit with red-glowing rock at the bottom.

Prologue The air in the small cabin was thickly, richly and variously scented: sweet hedge rose vying with sage and basil, a pungent eye-watering steam coming from a small kettle on the hearth that was mostly pennyroyal and something nasty underlying it.

He waved a hand round the snug sanctuary, rapidly filling with pungent steam.

Soon the Skydark excess of their seed would flow down onto the broiling hot roadway, where it would erupt into pungent steam.