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When the Acid is predominant to the Alkaline, and the Sulphur to them both, a Blood Red; which is the highest and most Sulphureous Colour in Nature.
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Sulphureous vapours rise continually from a plateau beneath the summit, where tumbled boulders of blackened lava lie sunken in deep layers of volcanic ash.
Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings
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But since the Ingenious _Franciscan_ Fryer (_Bertholdus Swart_) appeared in _Germany_, his _Sulphureous_ Brain has quite (or almost) _blown_ up the Reputation of the Bow, and all other Ancient Devices and Engines of
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Stones, from a proper noble vaporous Seed, from a Spiritual tinging Sulphureous Seed, in their diverse Saline Matrixes.
The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires John Frederick Helvetius
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Sulphureous vapour, forming a kind of crown of smoke, is emitted from it, whilst the atmosphere at the bottom is perfectly cool.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866
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Sulphureous acid is readily absorbed by water; and in this liquid state it is found particularly useful in bleaching linen and woollen cloths, and is much used in manufactures for those purposes.
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MRS.B. Sulphureous acid, as we have already observed, is a permanent gas, and can be obtained in a liquid form only by condensing it in water.
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Sulphureous clouds rise reddening round the height,
The Columbiad Joel Barlow 1783
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Air is the _menstruum_, or universal dissolvent of all _Sulphureous_ bodies.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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Menstruum_, which dissolves all sorts of _Sulphureous Bodies_, I have discover'd (which hat not been before taken notice of as such) I have shewn in the sixteenth Observation.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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