sulphurous

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Sulphurous your light and livid the towers with heads that thunderbolt the sky The skyscrapers which defy the storms with muscles of steel and stone-glazed hide.

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Sulphurous, acrid, "like the smell of foul water in a sewer," it came from the almost-ripened potato plants, lay so thick that in some places it was visible as a whitish cloud above them.

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Sulphurous story, weakened by phantasy and chemical jargon, about a young English chemist in the hands of slick promoters for whom he develops a process which makes sugar out of air.

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Sulphurous lava, 2,500� F. hot, more than 30 feet deep and 200 yards wide, rolled over the funicular that had carried many a tourist to the Valle dell' Inferno near the crater's edge.

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Sulphurous acid follows hydrochloric at a later period, and sulphuretted hydrogen occasionally succeeds.

From The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 by Palmieri, Luigi