sulphurs

Euphorbiae_) was devouring the euphorbias; the English _Cynthia Cardui_ (painted-lady butterfly) was common, as were "sulphurs," "marbles," _Pontia_ (whites), "blues," and _Thecla, _ of British aspect but foreign species.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

Gray Drakes ... fall Baetis in Cheesman Canyon ... sulphurs in Wisconsin ...

Religious Experience Bug Events Tim Romano 2007

Most of them are white -, orange -, and lime-winged sulphurs, but there are also tens of thousands of the small brown nymphalids known as ruddy daggerwings.

The Gasping Forest Shoumatoff, Alex 2007

Eurasian arctic satyrids, lesser fritillaries, and sulphurs are also in great commercial demand and could perhaps be farmed.

5 Application to Other Nations 1983

I was most entertained however with the Cabinet of Minerals, Metals of all sorts, sulphurs &c., and every Thing that had any Relation to silver and gold.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 June 1780 1973

Many alchemists postulated two sulphurs in the metals, an inward and an outward. 122 The outward sulphur was thought to be the chief cause of metallic impurity, and the reason why all (known) metals, save gold and silver, were acted on by fire.

Bygone Beliefs 1969

To avoid entering into the whole detail of this interesting argument, it is only here stated in support of the above assertion, that as mineral waters are impregnated with a combination of sulphurs, salts, and earth, their virtues cannot be properly ascribed, as they have been, to the metals which they contain.

A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves Hugh Smith

As the basis of this tea is the combined principle of the most balsamic oils, nutritious salts, and animating sulphurs, which the vegetable world produces, their effects must be proportionably salutary.

A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves Hugh Smith

The invaluable oils, uniting with the sulphurs of the sanative tea, recruit, soften, and lubricate the juices, diminish the too great elasticity, dryness, and crispness of the nervous fibres, and afford the exhausted liquids fresh supplies.

A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves Hugh Smith

Hundreds of artists also find support at Rome, in making casts, sulphurs, &c. from ancient gems and medals, and in selling or fabricating antiques.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 Various