sulphureous

• Then whatever has exhaled from the Earth that is sulphureous or Oily, which is dispersed up and down in the Atmosphere, and is not continuous, is set on Fire by Turns, and the Flame dilates itself as far as the Tract of that Exhalation reaches. —  The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years' Experience
• The sea is angry and discoloured; the day most oppressively sultry, and the atmosphere thick, sulphureous, and loaded with an almost impalpable dust, which falls on the paper as I write March 4._--We have had delicious weather almost ever since we arrived at Naples, but these last three days have been perfectly heavenly. —  The Diary of an Ennuyée
• The waters are sulphureous, very hot, and abundant. —  A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees
• It is to the island of Elba that we must look for mineral wealth Connected with the mineralogy of Corsica, I would just mention, in passing, that the island abounds in warm, sulphureous, and chalybeate springs, some of them strongly impregnated with carbonic acid gas. —  Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
• That his Calvinism was not very dark or sulphureous, seems to be shown from his repeating with gusto the saying of one of the old women of Olney when some preacher dwelt on the doctrine of predestination--"Ah, I have long settled that point; for if God had not chosen me before I was born, I am sure he would have seen nothing to have chosen me for afterwards." —  Cowper

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