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    sulphurous


    1. As the panic subsided I smelt the sulphurous odour of a slow fuse being lit


    2. Oh I could smell the smells also, the sulphurous stink of the dactyls, the bowels torn open


    3. the wonder stuff of sulphurous cauldrons


    4. the sulphurous fires of a thousand hells before they dared face my brother’s blades


    5. I can only speculate on the metabolism of the creatures that depend on this funnel for life – it is my learned opinion, owing to the sulphurous smell, that these creatures conserve the gasses that we would otherwise emit when we break wind, and, these being flammable, slowly combust them for their energy


    6. It is a spa of sulphurous water supposed to have medicinal properties


    7. My father rented a house here, long ago, so that my mother, who had severe lumbago pains, would take daily baths at the Cabritage, a sulphurous spa with a horrid, putrid smell extending far beyond the immediate vicinity of the sanitarium


    8. , that the sulphurous rain 'destroyed there all!’ 'Even thus,’ He adds, 'shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed


    9. When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames


    10. In the distance the transports, more in a bunch now, held on straight for Sulaco, with their air of friendly contest, of nautical sport, of a regatta; and the united smoke of their funnels drove like a thin, sulphurous fogbank right over his head

    11. It seemed as if there was some sulphurous fume, which at times made me dizzy


    12. The air was full of sulphurous thunder


    13. “I repeat only what he said—that Morgan could fire bullets from his finger-tips—that he breathed out sulphurous flames


    14. A strong sulphurous acid ran down the walls of many of the galleries; and I observed one of the drains was filled with a yellowish gelatinous substance, which I ascertained, on a subsequent examination, was a yellow, or rather a reddish, oxide of iron, mechanically suspended in water


    15. A strong sulphurous fume issues from an irregular hole in the side of the hill of about 2 feet diameter


    16. When thoroughly kindled, it burns with less flame, yields a small proportion of blackish smoke, and sulphurous acid gas is evolved, though I cannot discover any pyrites


    17. —, sulphurous acid, reaction of the essential oils with, xxxi, 281


    18. —, —, action of, with sulphurous acid, R


    19. Torrey, John, on the condensation of carbonic, sulphurous and chloro-chromic acid gases, xxxv, 374; xxxvi, 394


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    Synonyms for "sulphurous"

    stifling sulfurous sulphurous sultry acerb acerbic acid acrid bitter blistering caustic virulent vitriolic

    "sulphurous" definitions

    of or related to or containing sulfur or derived from sulfur


    harsh or corrosive in tone


    characterized by oppressive heat and humidity