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Getty Images Oil-stained pelicans sit on a dredging hose in last summer near Port Sulpher, La.
BP Seeks to Resume Drilling in Gulf of Mexico Guy Chazan 2011
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Weatherford; the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Stillwater; the university preparatory school at Tonkawa; a school for the deaf at Sulpher; an institute for the blind at Wagoner; the Whitaker
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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About halfe a mile farther I Came to a well wch is Like the Sulpher Spaw, taste and Looke agreeing thereto, wch is from brimstone, but its not quite soe strong for it was a Longer tyme before the silver was Changed in it.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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The taste of the spring in this town seems to be from a mixt soyle and bears a Likeness to ye Sulpher spaw Epsome and ye Iron springs too wch are at Tunbridge; what its operation is I Cannot tell only tasteing halfe a Glass of it wch I did not Like.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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It rises in a banck on ye top of a hill and so runns along in a little Channell about a foote over and all the Ground it runns over is moorish and full of holes with water Standing in it, wch stincks just like the Sulpher Spaw and will turn Silver to the Coullour of Copper as yt does.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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Sulpher Springs on the 7th day of August 1858 having been laid before the Board, the same are natified and approved and ordered to be spread upon the minutes.
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Reuters - Lawrence Russell Brewer, of Sulpher Springs, Texas,shown in a picture released by the authorities June … 35 mins ago
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I then introduced a tent and dressed it with bisilican; and prepared Some dozes of the flour of Sulpher and Creem of tarter which were given with directions to be taken on each morning. a little girl and Sundery other patients were brought to me for Cure but we posponed our opperations untill the morning; they produced us Several dogs but they were So pore that they were unfit to eat.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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Side one mile above & opposit a large Sulpher Spring which falls over the rocks on the Std. Side the wind rored from the S.W. hard & Some rain, at about 2 oClock Capt Lewis joined me from the falls
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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We could not so apply the smoak of _Sulpher_, as to have any visible effect from that, at two or three times trial; but on another trial, the smoak touching the leaves, it succeeded.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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