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• If we can select these aright, we feel sure that he will end by placing the work of George Gissing upon a considerably higher level than he has hitherto done The time has not yet come to write the history of his career--fuliginous in not a few of its earlier phases, gathering serenity towards its close,--finding a soul of goodness in things evil. —  The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
• 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 'pneuma'. —  Lectures and Essays
• The September world remains dark, fuliginous, as Lapland witch-midnight;--from which, indeed, very strange shapes will evolve themselves Understand this, however: that incorruptible Robespierre is not wanting, now when the brunt of battle is past; in a stealthy way the seagreen man sits there, his feline eyes excellent in the twilight. —  The French Revolution
• To us, in these pages, be it as a fuliginous fiery mystery, where Upper has met Nether, and in such alternate glare and blackness of darkness poor bedazzled mortals know not which is Upper, which is Nether; but rage and plunge distractedly, as mortals, in that case, will do. —  The French Revolution
• And how comes it that spirits and fuliginous vapours can pass hither and thither without admixture or confusion? —  The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)

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