fuliginous

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Within his dusky arms the wretch he caught, And with smutched lips, fuliginous and hot, Repaid the kiss which he to Christ had given.

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At first moist and coated with a whitish fur or a mucous secretion, it afterward, if life is prolonged, grows red and shining or brown and fuliginous.

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It was vulgarly called witch-riding, and considered as arising from the weight of fuliginous spirits incumbent on the breast.

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I turned up the dull and stinking oil lamp, and tried to read; but that fuliginous glim haunted the pages.

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Yet, of recent times, verse fuliginous, clouded, and enshrouded in obscurity, has been hailed in many quarters, not only as poetry, but poetry of an exceptionally superior sort.

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