fuliginous

• “On my way to trying to find that 'F' word, I learned that "fuliginous" means colored by soot, and the third definition of "flocculus" is a cloudlike mass of gas appearing on the sun's surface.”

  NBC Treats Word Games Like the Olympic Games

• “Part of the blood, it was supposed, went through what we now call the pulmonary arteries (Figure 1), and, branching out there, gave exit to certain "fuliginous" products, and at the same time took in from the air a something which Galen calls the”

  Lectures and Essays

• “By reason of the excessive coldness of the air, hindering the ascent of the smoke, was so filled with the fuliginous steam of the sea-coal, that hardly can one see across the street, and this filling the lungs with its gross particles exceedingly obstructed the breast, so as one would scarcely breathe.”

  Simon & Schuster: When a Billion Chinese Jump

• “The piano, decrepit on its legs, though made of good wood painted black and gilded, was dirty, defaced, and scratched; and its keys, worn like the teeth of old horses, were yellowed with the fuliginous colors of the pipe.”

  A Daughter of Eve

• “Vulcan was to Venus; for he being a sweaty fuliginous blacksmith, was dearly beloved of her, when fair Apollo, nimble Mercury were rejected, and the rest of the sweet-faced gods forsaken.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Tempestuous air, dark and fuliginous, how cause of melancholy”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “All these, most part, offend by inflammation, corrupting humours and spirits, in this non-natural melancholy: for from these are engendered fuliginous and black spirits.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “It offends commonly if it be too [1510] hot and dry, thick, fuliginous, cloudy, blustering, or a tempestuous air.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Tis not amiss to bore the skull with an instrument, to let out the fuliginous vapours.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “The lawyer and the Baroness left the guardroom, with its greasy, fuliginous walls; but as soon as they reached the top of the stairs, Asie exclaimed:”

  Scenes from a Courtesan's Life

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