brimstone

• They cut splinters out of soft wood, dip their ends in brimstone--which Joe learned how to make--and put them in a hot oven until the brimstone is baked. —  A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy
• Flour of brimstone, which is also called sublimed sulphur, is generally put up in ounce packets at 7d. —  Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby
• In a very short time they will hear a shower of wood-pigeons falling to the ground, which, by the light of some dried canes, they may gather into sacks, as soon as the brimstone is extinguished I shall here give an instance that proves not only the prodigious number of those birds, but also their singular instinct. —  History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing
• Also quicksilver hath the property that it curdeth not by itself kindly without brimstone: but with brimstone, and with substance of lead, it is congealed and fastened together. —  Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
• And by these three plagues was slain the third part of men, by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone which issued out of their mouths 9:19. —  The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete

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