1 It steams and glitters blue with sulphur.
2 But even on windless days the air always smelt of something under-earth: sulphur, iron, coal, or acid.
3 When the rock and refuse of the underworld had burned and given off its sulphur, it turned bright pink, shrimp-coloured on dry days, darker, crab-coloured on wet.
4 This appeared to be devoted to minerals, and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder.
5 Yet the sulphur hung in my mind, and set up a train of thinking.
6 She brought the fire and sulphur, as he had bidden her, and Ulysses thoroughly purified the cloisters and both the inner and outer courts.
7 But the corpses are now all piled up in the gatehouse that is in the outer court, and Ulysses has lit a great fire to purify the house with sulphur.
8 Even old Dr. Fontaine admitted that he was puzzled, after his tonic of sulphur, molasses and herbs failed to perk her up.
9 The globe does not perish, because it has these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor because of a volcano which ejects its pus.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE 10 And when the wind was that way, which was often, the house was full of the stench of this sulphurous combustion of the earth's excrement.
11 The hard air was still sulphurous, but they were both used to it.
12 But the sulphurous brimstone which burns in hell is a substance which is specially designed to burn for ever and for ever with unspeakable fury.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 13 The air was oppressive; it seemed as if there was some sulphurous fume, which at times made me dizzy.