Fug

'Made one quite thankful to get back to the fug, though as a rule I think the way these trains are overheated is something scandalous'.

On certain days, when hot currents shimmered off Oyster's Reef, we would detect the chalk-dust of the mullock heaps, acrid; or, from the opal mines themselves, the ghastly fug of the tunnels and shafts.

The gym teacher left that year, his successors had no interest in boxing, and society soon passed into a zone where the idea of thirteen-year-old boys punching each other's faces for educational purposes became as unthinkable as the dense fug of tobacco smoke in our school's staff room.

The misty fug his breath had left on the window sparkled in the orange glare of the streetlamp outside.

That's what a fug was. You could have cut cubes out of the air and sold it for cheap building material.

Inside, though, the little café was warm and bright, with a comforting fug of tea and baked bread and cakes.

So delicious after the fug of summer. It makes one feel so alive.

Somewhere in the fug of her mind she remembered how to close it and fetched the pole, slotting it into the mechanism above and beginning to turn the handles.