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- adverb Alternative spelling of
sulfurously .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He put a fresh daub of clay on the injured part, swearing sulphurously the while.
TOO MUCH GOLD 2010
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He put a fresh daub of clay on the injured part, swearing sulphurously the while.
Too Much Gold 2010
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The Count cursed sulphurously when he saw the havoc they were making among his boats, which had been built laboriously of planks sawn out of solid logs.
The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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The Count cursed sulphurously when he saw the havoc they were making among his boats, which had been built laboriously of planks sawn out of solid logs.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005
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Cursing sulphurously, he tore his dagger from his belt, crouching low again as yet another arrow whispered past.
Conan and the Emerald Lotus Hocking, John 1995
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The Count cursed sulphurously when he saw the havoc they were making among his boats, which had been built laboriously of planks sawn out of solid logs.
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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Master Pilot Henry Henderson cursed that ruling sulphurously, even while he watched with a proud, if somewhat jaundiced eye, the smooth performance of Henry Junior at his own old board.
Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954
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Some day I shall look over old stories of demons that have appeared sulphurously upon this earth, with the idea of expressing that we have often had undesirable visitors from other worlds; or that an indication of external derivation is sulphurousness.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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He put a fresh daub of clay on the injured part, swearing sulphurously the while.
Too Much Gold 1904
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To the west a small patch of open sky glowed sulphurously through a smoke pall.
Stubble George Looms 1906
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