A huge column of water, gleaming with a ghostly sulphurous light, was thrown high in the air, falling with terrific force on the deck of the frigate, which was almost capsized by the shock.
A dense sulphurous smoke hung about the hulls of the two ships, making any extended vision impossible.
Hardly was the breeze strong enough to carry away the sulphurouscloud of smoke that formed the one blot on the fair surface of the fairest of all seas.
What torrents of fire from her red mouth she threw; And how from her broad wings and sulphurous sides, Hot showers of grape-shot and rifle-balls flew!
On the waters you miss the gay caique, now superseded by the steam-ferries, ever vomiting clouds of sulphurous smoke.
Then I began wondering how much longer I would dare lie there, before the Orderly Sergeant would draw me out by the heels, and accompany the operation with numerous unkind and sulphurous remarks.
He flamed up into mighty wrath, and swore a sulphurous oath that we would get that watch back, whereupon about two hundred of us avowed our willingness to help reclaim it.
The wind continuing contrary, and the sea very rough, we all remained on the shore, till the descent of a sulphurous and fiery vapour suddenly oppressed my weak lungs and put an end to my life.
When the earth was shaking beneath you, when the whole heaven was darkened with sulphurous clouds, when all Nature seemed falling into its final destruction, to be reading Livy and making extracts was an absurd affectation.
He wished the girls anywhere else so that he might smother the lackey with a sulphurous blast.
The Lake of the Accursed was evidently fed by a large number of hot springs, and the strong sulphurous fumes given off exterminated life in every form.
With eager fingers outstretched before me I felt my way carefully onward over the rocks, rendered slippery by the sulphurous deposits of ages.
There was the same strange, sulphurous odour that I had experienced when swimming the Lake of the Accursed, and I began to fear that the poisonous gases exuded from the swamps would cause asphyxiation.
The captain and owner, both of whom were much-respected men, were consigned by the sailors many times to perdition and other more or less sulphurous places.
Merciful Heaven, Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle.
Sulphurous acid may either be applied in the gaseous form or in solution as bisulphite of soda.
Wool bleached with sulphurous acid or bisulphite is readily affected by alkalis, the natural yellow colour returning on washing with soap or soda.
It behaves more as a ketone than as a quinone, since with hydroxylamine it yields an oxime, and on reduction with zinc dust and caustic soda it yields a secondary alcohol, whilst it cannot be reduced by means of sulphurous acid.
When sheets are removed from the sulphurousacid they should be well washed for an hour or two in running water, and then may be blotted or squeezed off and hung up on lines to dry.
Then transfer them to a bath of sulphurous (not sulphuric) acid and water in the proportion of one ounce of acid to one pint of water.
The old man, shrouded and mittened, at last crept off homeward to nurse his wounds and his wrath, and he made the air fairly sulphurous around him with his oaths.
In spite of the very high temperature of the sulphurousfumes emitted from various crevices on the edge of the Solfatara, it is possible, thanks to the complete dryness of the fumes, to crawl a little way into the interior of these crevices.
In this transformation of sulphurous substance from a higher material state, nearer to levity, to that of the solid crystal, we may behold an image of the generation of matter.
All around sulphurous fumes issue from crevices in the rocks, and in one special place the Solfatara reveals its subterranean activity by the emergence of fine, many-coloured sand, which oozes up like boiling liquid from the depths below.
Then I look'd, and saw the wretches Who the passage were attempting Fall amid the sulphurous current, Where the snakes with teeth and talons Tore them to a thousand pieces.
My hour is almost come, When I to sulphurousand tormenting flames Must render up myself.
It is surrounded by a cask, and contains a cold water of a blackish, slimy appearance, and of a sulphurous taste.
This district had the appearance of a conflagrated city, several of whose houses were still burning; the sulphuroussmell that pervaded the atmosphere, almost took the breath away.
But deadlier yet Was that fell force most hostile to the sea; For, thrown in torches and in sulphurous bolts Fire all-consuming ran among the ships, Whose oily timbers soaked in pitch and wax Inflammable, gave welcome to the flames.
The river-water here is quite warm, and of a villainously alum and sulphurous taste.
Two or three miles down this stream is a hideous glen, filled with sulphurous vapor emitted from six or eight boiling springs of great size and activity.
Its greenish-yellow water was covered with bubbles, which were constantly rising, bursting, and emitting sulphurous gas from various parts of its surface.
Their sulphurous fumes can be detected at the distance of half a mile.
The atmosphere was filled with sulphurous gases, and the river opposite our camp was impregnated with the mineral bases of adjacent springs.
At one point there is a steam-vent so hot that it is difficult to approach it, emitting a strong sulphurous smell, and within two feet of it there is a larger spring, boiling like a caldron.
For several miles the ground is impregnated with sulphur, and the air is tainted with sulphurous exhalations.
A few rods north of this spring, at the base of the hill, is a cavern whose mouth is about seven feet in diameter, from which a dense jet of sulphurous vapor explodes with a regular report like a high-pressure engine.
In course of time the source of sulphurous acid becomes exhausted, and sulphuretted hydrogen alone remains active.
Wherever vapors of sulphurous acid are constantly formed, there acid-springs or solfataras arise.
In the place ofsulphurous acid the odor of sulphuretted hydrogen is sometimes observed in these springs.
Beneath the plate are placed pots containing water, into which the sulphurous or bituminous vapour descends, and in the water the fat accumulates and floats on the top.
The sulphurous mixture, whether it consists of stone and sulphur only, or of stone and sulphur and metal, may be heated in similar pots, but with perforated bottoms.
Sulphur is made from sulphurous waters, from sulphurous ores, and from sulphurous mixtures.
When they have thus been separated they prove of some service to man, especially thesulphurous kind.
Pliny, too, has left a record that when wells are sunk, the sulphurous or aluminous vapours which arise kill the well-diggers, and it is a test of this danger if a burning lamp which has been let down is extinguished.
Others bury a pot in the ground, and place over it another pot with a hole at the bottom, in which pyrites or cadmia, or other sulphurous stones are so enclosed that the sulphur cannot exhale.
A reek of sulphurous fumes filled the air and made the adventurers feel dizzy.
A mighty rumbling and roaring proceeded from its throat as the smoke poured out, and vivid, blue flames shot through the sulphurous smother from time to time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sulphurous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
