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  • Never forget that people can detect the sulphorous scent of condescension and the slimy textures of manipulation.

    July 2006 2006

  • Never forget that people can detect the sulphorous scent of condescension and the slimy textures of manipulation.

    Lampreys, Megamouths and Cane Toads: Overmarketing 2006

  • I tried baking brussels sprouts recently, and they did nothing to convert me - just intensified the sulphorous taste.

    What I cooked last night. 2005

  • I do not know the number operated at the same time but it was said to be five hundred; but I do know the roar was awful and the heavens surcharged with hissing, roaring balls screeching, screaming, bursting shells enveloped in sulphorous smoke that clouded the July sun.

    Two boys in the Civil War and after, 1912

  • Like a Hadean nightmare come to life, flickering lightning is seen hovering over the dark sulphorous caldera of Alaska's Mt. [A] team of researchers scrambled to set up a system called a Lightning Mapping Array that would be able to peer through the dust and gas of any eruption that occurred to the lightning storm happening within. ...

    Daily Kos 2009

  • It was a high pressured geyser that shot sulphorous steam 40ft into the air with an amazing hissing? sound that puncuated the silence.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2008

  • Research has shown that specific types of cancer are less prevalent in individuals who regularly eat cruciferous vegetables -- or vegetables that contain sulphorous compounds, which contribute to their strong flavor.

    Sass & Veracity 2008

  • It’s extraordinary that the RMS complaint can cite Stern’s estimates of the increase in sulphur emissions in support of the “well-established in the scientific literature” contention about the cause of the cooling in the early post-World War II decades, and can even adopt Stern’s estimate that global sulphorous emissions have “declined markedly” since 1989, and yet conclude that:

    RMS and Sulphate Emissions « Climate Audit 2007

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