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Never forget that people can detect the sulphorous scent of condescension and the slimy textures of manipulation.
July 2006 2006
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Never forget that people can detect the sulphorous scent of condescension and the slimy textures of manipulation.
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I tried baking brussels sprouts recently, and they did nothing to convert me - just intensified the sulphorous taste.
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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.
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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
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It was a high pressured geyser that shot sulphorous steam 40ft into the air with an amazing hissing? sound that puncuated the silence.
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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
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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:
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