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7 total sentences available.
We mark the dazzling meteor in its flight / glide o'er the roof, till, vanished from our eyes, / it hides in Ida's forest, shining bright / and furrowing out a pathway through the skies, / and round us far and wide the sulphurous fumes arise.
Source: tatoeba (6875383)
Thunder is made from a sulphurous vapour, breaking out of a cloud with lightning, thundering and striking with lightning.
Source: tatoeba (7305618)
The hermit maintained and bucklered his opinion, by quotations from Malleus Malificarum, Sprengerus, Remigius, and other learned demonologists, that the Evil One, thus seduced to remain behind the appointed hour, would assume her true shape, and, having appeared to her terrified lover as a fiend of hell, would vanish from him in a flash of sulphurous lightning.
Source: tatoeba (7752161)
The hermit maintained that the Evil One, thus seduced to remain behind the appointed hour, would assume her true shape, and, having appeared to her terrified lover as a fiend of hell, would vanish from him in a flash of sulphurous lightning.
Source: tatoeba (7752162)
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