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sulfury

a. 1 having a colour similar to that of sulfur 2 having a smell similar to that of sulfur compounds

Usage examples of "sulfury".

Presently I caught a whiff of sulfury smoke and the sound of iron clanging on iron.

He would stink, of sweat and leather and gun-oil and sulfury black powder, and his hands would have the sweet-sour pungent smell of brass from the hilt of his sword.

The blood had a coppery odor, like a new penny, and it blended in with the sulfury scent of gunpowder.

Nuke it on High for 10 to 12 minutes, or until quite tender but not sulfury smelling.

Horrid, sulfury stuff, and did my phlegm no good, no good at all, in case any of you are thinking to try the waters for yourselves.

Batteries and a stinking sulfury diesel were no match for a nuclear power plant.

John Pellam walked through the cloud of sulfury smoke and looked down.

Apparently, somebody had alerted the chef to the dietary restrictions of the Coalition agents, because the breakfast options included a kashalike grain, cooked into porridge and served with some sort of legume milk and a sweetener reminiscent of molasses in its sulfury richness.

This was a green world in here, but for the occasional contrast that the brilliant fungi of the treetrunks provided, mainly scarlet in this part of the forest, occasionally a vivid yellow brighter even than the sulfury yellow of Ketheron.

The smells of the drying herbs above the cold parlor hearth, the sulfury whiff of the gunpowder she used in her gris-gris, the mildewy scent inextricably tied, in his mind, to every memory of New Orleans all these impressed themselves on him, like the unspeaking presence of that deity who lived in the blackpainted bottle on her shelf.

And across the harbor toward Manhattan there was always a sulfury yellow glow.

My straw hat made everything seem yellow: the mud, the sky, the sulfury shoreline.

I held a match beneath them, singeing them slightly, so that they turned brown and sulfury, almost like burnt feathers, there in my hand.

Gerald, though staggering with weariness, made himself useful, his sulfury sticks kindling the blaze more easily than flint and steel.