Adjective : the fuliginous air hanging over an industrial city. From Dictionary.com.
Tempestuous air, dark and fuliginous, how cause of melancholy. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
'Tis not amiss to bore the skull with an instrument, to let out the fuliginous vapours. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
And how comes it that spirits and fuliginous vapours can pass hither and thither without admixture or confusion?. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Above the forest were passing large clouds, to which the crater of Mount Franklin incessantly added fuliginous matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
If the mitral cuspidate valves do not prevent the egress of fuliginous vapours to the lungs, how should they oppose the escape of air?. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Unfortunately, at all times and seasons, a sort of fuliginous emanation, quite sut generis, enveloped, hid from the eye the wealth of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Guermantes Way] Reference
The lawyer and the Baroness left the guardroom, with its greasy, fuliginous walls; but as soon as they reached the top of the stairs, Asie exclaimed. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference
The sunshine has appeared to rest upon scattered clusters of red-coats, while the background has been enveloped in a sort of chaotic and fuliginous dimness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
Southern planter of the great days — which was the image picturesquely suggested by the happy relation between the fuliginous face and the wide panama of his visitor. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
All these, most part, offend by inflammation, corrupting humours and spirits, in this non-natural melancholy: for from these are engendered fuliginous and black spirits. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
And so the debate went on, not altogether without some sparks of wisdom, with many sparks also of eager benevolence, and some few passing clouds of fuliginous self-interest. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Richmond] Reference
Columbus, the fuliginous Mirabeau, burly Danton dying with "no weakness" on his lips. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Carlyle] Reference
It grew darker, a peculiar fuliginous darkness, which was not of the gloom of the forest. From Wordnik.com. [The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest] Reference
The color varies greatly between yellowish brown to olive brown, fuliginous or nearly black. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
His soul, like a sword-blade too long in the scabbard, was beginning to get fuliginous by inactivity. From Wordnik.com. [Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three] Reference
O fuliginous confused Kingdom of Dis, with thy Tantalus-Ixion toils, with thy angry Fire-floods, and. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Shoulders and outside of arm silvered; tail slightly paler than body, "which is of a blackish fuliginous hue.". From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
Two hours afterwards she crossed the Bay of Naples and hovered for an instant over the fuliginous wreaths of Vesuvius. From Wordnik.com. [Robur the Conqueror] Reference
The wall-paper, mouse-gray with a pink border, revealed, by certain fuliginous stains, the unwholesome presence of smokers. From Wordnik.com. [Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau] Reference
Upon these fuliginous and amethystine crystals are many sphericles or hemispheres of red compact iron-ore, like haematites. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Earth~ Part 2 (historical)] Reference
This islet, of curious contexture, resembles as near as possible a cup turned upside down, from which a fuliginous vapor arises. From Wordnik.com. [Facing the Flag] Reference
To that dingy fuliginous Operative, emerging from his soot-mill, what is the first duty I will prescribe, and offer help towards?. From Wordnik.com. [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference
The cuticle is smoky olive to fuliginous, darker when young, becoming paler as the pileus expands, but always darker on the umbo. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
Mount Franklin, distant about six miles, now appeared like a gigantic torch, around the summit of which turned fuliginous flames. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of the Island] Reference
Their father would sooner have had his hand cut off than any word said over that fuliginous dessert reach the ears of his daughters. From Wordnik.com. [What's Mine's Mine — Volume 2] Reference
The lawyer and the Baroness left the guardroom, with its greasy, fuliginous walls; but as soon as they reached the top of the stairs. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference
Adams-street of a cloudy afternoon, you think yourself in a frowning and fuliginous city of Dis, piled up by superhuman and apparently sinister powers. From Wordnik.com. [America To-day, Observations and Reflections] Reference
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