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Example sentences for "sulphureous"

Lexicographically close words:
sulphonated; sulphonic; sulphur; sulphurated; sulphure; sulphuret; sulphureted; sulphurets; sulphuretted; sulphuric
  1. They are seven in number, ardently sulphureous and officiously odorous.

  2. Beyond, still in the park, is a graceful rustic kiosque, where other than sulphureous drinks are dealt out and where many people contrive to linger in passing.

  3. Jordan in his judicious Discourse of mineral waters yeeldeth the reason, because their vapors are rather sulphureous then of any other combustible substance.

  4. Diamonds should do the like better than Flints: but rather from sulphureous inflamed and even vitrified effluviums and particles, as hath been observed of late.

  5. And so doth fire cleanse and purifie bodies, because it consumes the sulphureous parts, which before did make them foul: and therefore refines those bodies which will never be mundified by water.

  6. France, department Pyrenees-Orientales, frequented as a winter residence for invalids, and for its warm sulphureous springs.

  7. Cordova, in Spain, a sulphureous stone that had fallen from heaven.

  8. For, on turning round, we perceived the whole chasm to be filling with thick sulphureous smoke; and within half an hour, it was so completely choked with it, that not an object below us was visible.

  9. Deep in the central earth, amidst the reek Of sacrifice and blue sulphureous fume 220 Involved.

  10. They fled to the inclosure of the tomb, but not without receiving a few scalding drops of the water, which bubbled and exhaled a strong sulphureous odor.

  11. Then the sulphureous smoke disappeared, and a pure swift current of fresh air refreshed the panting voyagers.

  12. The air was heavy with a penetrating sulphureous odor.

  13. Fourthly, that the first of these liquors in a mixture of the alkali and igneous parts of quick-lime with the sulphureous substance of arsenick; for the orpin is a sort of arsenick, as I said before.

  14. Hot Sulphureous Baths are things very frequent in this Country; and thence it was that it obtained the Name of Syria Salutifera.

  15. I omitted to mention before, that under the long Walk runs a Current of hot Sulphureous Waters; and there is a Well and other Passages down to them.

  16. Is not the strength and vigor of the action between Light and sulphureous Bodies observed above, one reason why sulphureous Bodies take fire more readily, and burn more vehemently than other Bodies do?

  17. Also some sulphureous Steams, at all times when the Earth is dry, ascending into the Air, ferment there with nitrous Acids, and sometimes taking fire cause Lightning and Thunder, and fiery Meteors.

  18. Whence it seems rational to attribute the refractive Power of all Bodies chiefly, if not wholly, to the sulphureous Parts with which they abound.

  19. And as Light congregated by a Burning-glass acts most upon sulphureous Bodies, to turn them into Fire and Flame; so, since all Action is mutual, Sulphurs ought to act most upon Light.

  20. For out of it grow all vegetable and animal Substances, which consist as well of sulphureous fat and inflamable Parts, as of earthy lean and alcalizate ones.

  21. I knew who had created that sulphureous vapour.

  22. I held a pistol in my hand, from the muzzle of which a slight film of sulphureous smoke could be seen stringing outward.

  23. I was born in a cloud of sulphureous hue-- Darkness my mother, and Flame my sire; The earth shook in terror, as forth to its view I sprang from my throne like a monarch of fire!

  24. At length I started with affright, and felt, or seemed to feel, The blasts of hot sulphureous air across my forehead steal.

  25. For sulphureous Exhalations bursting out together with the Waters, the fulmineous Matter in the Air is set on Fire when it meets with Exhalations or Vapours with which it can excite a vehement Effervescence.

  26. The Answer is easy, because from the Bottom of the Ocean vast Tracts of sulphureous Matter are cast up through the Waters; as it happens to spring Waters in several Places, the Streams of which will take Fire from a lighted Candle.

  27. The hot springs, which are of sulphureous quality, and have a temperature of from 109 deg.

  28. Within a mile of Hammam Meskutin are ferruginous and sulphureous springs.

  29. Germano, natural sulphureous vapour baths, and close by is the Grotta del Cane, from the floor of which warm carbonic acid gas constantly rises to a height of 18 in.

  30. Alunite occurs as seams in trachytic and allied volcanic rocks, having been formed by the action of sulphureous vapours on these rocks.

  31. It is singular, that the friction is invariably accompanied by a strong sulphureous smell.

  32. At the same period, the inhabitants of the eastern Antilles were alarmed by shocks, which continued during eight months, when the volcano of Guadaloupe threw out pumice stones, ashes, and gusts of sulphureous vapours.

  33. To add to the horror of the scene, incessant volcanic lightning was darting its corruscations about the black cloud that surrounded the inhabitants, and the sulphureous smell and heat would scarcely allow them to draw their breath.

  34. Upon the removal of the mop, there arises a sulphureous smoke, lasting about a minute, and yet the water is very cold to the touch.

  35. At Cumana, as we have already observed, flames and vapours, mixed with sulphureous acid, spring up from the most arid soil.

  36. Part of Monte Nuovo is cultivated, but the larger portion of its declivity is wildly overgrown with prickly broom, and rank weeds that emit a very fetid sulphureous smell.

  37. This lake has an outlet, whence its waters run, forming a whitish muddy stream, into the Teverone, the ancient Anio, emitting a vapour of a sulphureous smell as they flow.

  38. There was a hot, sulphureous vapor in the air, and showers of white ashes fell, from time to time.

  39. The sun was fierce and hot, and the edges of the sulphureous clouds shone with a dazzling whiteness.

  40. As its breadth did not vary, and the edges were distinctly defined, it was no doubt the sulphureous vapor rising from a river of molten lava.

  41. The shale was in a state of ignition in many places, and the hot sulphureous airs from the land were strongly contrasted with cold sea-breezes with which, in the morning, they alternated.

  42. There are likewise two streams of sulphureous water that flow from its base into the Mackenzie.

  43. I gently insisted, pointing out that I did not care for a walk across the wind-swept desert only to dip myself into a pool of lukewarm and pestilentially sulphureous water.

  44. To remain where he was--inactive, would be to stand still in the yawning crater of a volcano, when the overcharged cauldron below had already begun to belch forth sulphureous flames and smoke.

  45. Her materials for that purpose were two hard sulphureous stones, which, by long friction, or hard knocking, produced a few sparks.

  46. Even so dayly in the bowels of the Earth are procreated Metals, and Perspicuous Stones, from a proper noble vaporous Seed, from a Spiritual tinging Sulphureous Seed, in their diverse Saline Matrixes.

  47. How it by its own insited Sulphureous Virtue, of Iron, by Contact presently makes a Magnet.

  48. And that fire is nothing else but such a dissolution of the Burning body, made by the most universal menstruum of all sulphureous bodies, namely, the Air, we shall in an other place of this Tractate endeavour to make probable.

  49. What an universal Menstruum, which dissolves all sorts of Sulphureous Bodies, I have discover'd (which hat not been before taken notice of as such) I have shewn in the sixteenth Observation.

  50. I had commenced translating the speech; but, before three words had escaped my lips, the loud bang of a musket drowned every other sound; and the cloud of sulphureous smoke covering the whole platform, hindered us from seeing one another!


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