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Will society do for the safety of this young soul what the doctor does for the body, when it is a question of contending against hereditary vitiation?

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Sue, Eugène

In the former a leaky joint may cause the vitiation of the surrounding air as the producer-gas escapes; in the suction apparatus the same fault simply causes more air to be drawn in.

From Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines by Mathot, R. E.

An ordinary single mantle burner causes as much vitiation as two or three persons.

From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Luckiesh, Matthew

In Everope is seen the extremity to which the vitiation here mentioned by the great moralist may sometimes be carried.

From Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy

But there is also, independently of this vitiation to which the wines are liable, another cause for the inferior quality of those wines which are really the produce of the islands.

From A Voyage Round the World, Volume I Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832 by Holman, James