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The fire rushed in a dusky mass upon the blackened, flickering images, till nothing was to be seen but a confused bush of smoke and brown-red flames, puthering, reeking, roaring.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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(adjective) - (1) Pouring with rain. --Jabez Good's Glossary of East Lincolnshire, 1900 (2) Puthery, sultry; English Midlands. Puther, smoke, steam, dust; a cloud of smoke or dust; English Midlands. --Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905
January 27, 2018