Mildew cause

Usage examples of dampness.

She sponged it with a solution of karalla powder as a precaution, then turned the three hoods inside out and dusted them lightly inside with the same powder as a preventive against any dampness or infection, or the tiny parasites which sometimes got on birds and caused trouble at molting.

It was plainly unhealthy, perhaps because of the dampness and fungous growth in the cellar, the general sickish smell, the draughts of the hallways, or the quality of the well and pump water.

Dampness was a danger with firestone, which would explode on contact with water.

The dampness was less foetid, and all the strange fungi had withered to a kind of harmless greyish powder which blew ashlike along the floor.

After treating of methods of collecting and analyzing the gases found in mines, of investigations as to the rate of liberation of gas from coal, and of studies on coal dust, this bulletin discusses such factors as the restraining influence of shale dust and dampness on coal-dust explosions.

Like many maids, she was small, pixieish, with short-cropped hair and natural curls now emphasized by dampness.

We know that it can perfectly well withstand a little more heat or cold, dampness or dryness, for elsewhere it ranges into slightly hotter or colder, damper or drier districts.

While the air seems near summerlike to him- which is the reason his parka is in his pack-the dampness of the rain is annoying.

Rocks, brambles and rusted cans filled the bed, although cottonwoods grew luxuriantly on the near bank, tapping the dampness below.

Still, Razor John was a hearty soul, and he quickly acclimated to the everpresent dampness and the aches it caused.

New scents rose to his nostrils, of earth and old leaves, dampness and the sharp aroma of a torn fungus.

The dampness seeped into the coach from the rawhide fastenings at the windows, which also whipped about in the brisk wind until her hands and feet felt like blocks of ice.

Her skin prickled against her clean-suit as the cold and an impression of dampness seeped through.

Anyway, something about it seems to say it isn't a man's handwriting Besides, neither of you may have noticed it, but there's a faint odor, as of perfume, adheres to that bit of paper, though the dampness has taken it almost all out.

Considering the several facts given in this chapter, we see that the course followed by a root through the soil is governed by extraordinarily complex and diversified agencies,--by geotropism acting in a different manner on the primary, secondary, and tertiary radicles,--by sensitiveness to contact, different in kind in the apex and in the part immediately above the apex, and apparently by sensitiveness to the varying dampness of different parts of the soil.