pulverous
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Cool it is, and of a pulverous smell, as a sacred place should be; a blessed benching goes round the wall, and you sit down and take unlimited comfort in the frescos.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. by Various
Northern California one pulverous earth-colored mass of hills and heat, with green spots produced by irrigation hardly showing on the background.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James
Many booths stood unlet, and in others the pulverous ladies and gentlemen, their proprietors, were in the enjoyment of a leisure which would have been elegant if it had not been forced.
From Suburban Sketches by William Dean Howells
Cool it is, and of a pulverous smell, as a sacred place should be; a blessed benching goes round the walls, and you sit down and take unlimited comfort in the frescos.
From Italian Journeys by William Dean Howells
While the two talked in the same pulverous fashion, the words came very differently from the two mouths.
From There & Back by George MacDonald
