How To Use Acrid In A Sentence
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The searing heat and dense, acrid smoke inside a burning building make it almost impossible for firefighters to see what is around them.
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For three hours a mysterious cloud of acrid smoke hovered over some of London's busiest streets.
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It was more a thing of his head than his heart, revealing itself mainly in short, acrid speeches, meant to be clever, and indubitably disagreeable.
Mary Marston
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Liquids, whether waters or oils, which possess a great and intense acridity, act like heat in tearing asunder bodies and burning them after some time; yet to the touch they are not hot at first.
The New Organon
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Their acridity is owing to an oleaginous substance called capsicin.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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They fled their homes with a few personal belongings, escaping the acrid sulphuric fumes and lava of an erupting volcano.
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Dr.B. is of the opinion that it owes its value to three qualities combined: an acrid, an emetic, and a deobstruent property -- the latter acting on the glandular system.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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You couldn't walk past his bedroom door without noticing that acrid, rank acidic smell.
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It has a warm energy with bitter and acrid or pungent flavors.
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About the twenty-first, weight generally in the left side, with pain; slight urine thick, muddy, and reddish; when allowed to stand, had no sediment; in other respects felt lighter; fever not gone; fauces painful from the commencement, and red; uvula retracted; defluxion remained acrid, pungent, and saltish throughout.
Of The Epidemics
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Once the acrid smell of freshly applied paint had dissolved, the deception was complete.
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Dr. Tully also says it is a deobstruent or alterative, an acrid narcotic, an emetic, an epispastic, and an errhine; found very useful in gout, rheumatism, diseases of lungs, and some complaints of the bowels.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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the acrid smell of burning rubber
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Oh! he was spiteful, acrid, savage; and, as a natural consequence, detestably ugly.
Villette
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An acrid odour caught his attention.
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The chemical has an acrid smell.
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The work artfully juxtaposes two complex, quasi-symphonic percussion instruments piano and gamelan ensemble, East and West each making fluent-sounding attempts at adopting the accent of the other, with the piano's unusual tuning giving a quirky tinge to its tones, a slight acridity to would-be octaves.
Music review: Post-Classical Ensemble recognizes the work of Lou Harrison
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There is an acrid tone to your remarks.
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The searing heat and dense, acrid smoke inside a burning building make it almost impossible for firefighters to see what is around them.
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The stains acridine orange, ethidium bromide, azur II, eosin B, trypan blue, Giemsa solution and nitroblue tetrazolium were purchased from Sigma.
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Other demonstrators, passers-by and tourists rubbed their eyes and coughed as the acrid mix of smoke and teargas engulfed the area.
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The _diarrhoea crapulosa_, or diarrhoea from indigestion, occurs when too great a quantity of food or liquid has been taken; which not being compleatly digested, stimulates the intestines like any other extraneous acrid material; and thus produces an increase of the secretions into them of mucus, pancreatic juice, and bile.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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He is soon on his way though, with his fellow passengers coughing through the acrid smoke polluting the cabin.
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Everything good in nature and the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astringency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity ’.
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She lay down again on the bed and sang a little wandering tune made up of the words I have sung all the songs all the songs I have sung all the songs there are until, touched by her own lullaby, she grew drowsy, and in the hollow of near-sleep she tasted the acridness of gold, left the chill of alabaster and smelled the dark, sweet stench of loam.
Toni Morrison - Prose
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A few moments later I heard the scratch of a match against a striker, then smelled the sweet acrid aroma of marijuana.
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Deinacrida rugosa are gentle giants - herbivores far less ferocious than the smaller tree weta we find in our garages, gardens and gumboots!
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He went on to demonstrate that this effect was greater than that of either acridine alone, light alone or acridine exposed to light and then added to the paramecium.
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The acrid smoke, the heat of the air and the screams of the injured assailed my senses.
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I lifted my jacket to my nose for a sniff - I could still smell the acrid stench of the gas.
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Cell pellets were re-suspended in 1 ml of RPMI 1640 medium, and cell yields and viability were assessed by ethidium bromide/acridine orange staining.
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As he made his way to the bridge through dark clouds of acrid smoke, a second torpedo struck the ship.
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the acridity of alkali
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Shirley acridly collected plants and leaves that she needed for cloth dyeing.
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It rocked the wings and made an acrid smell.
Bomber
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I took a swallow of the whiskey and the acrid taste of it made me choke.
The Other Side of Me
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Even with the cooler weather and some rain, acrid smoke still hangs over the most ravaged areas.
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Following treatments for 24 hr with DMSO alone (control), Red-Br-nos, LPS, Red-Br-nos and LPS, cells were stained with 1 µg/ml acridine orange for 15 min, washed with PBS, and examined under a Zeiss fluorescence microscope using a 40X objective lens Proteins from THP-1 cells pellets were resolved by polyacrylamide gel-electrophoresis and transferred onto polyvinylidene difluoride membranes (Millipore).
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Other demonstrators, passers-by and tourists rubbed their eyes and coughed as the acrid mix of smoke and teargas engulfed the area.
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The air was stale and acrid, and a cluster of black flies hovered over the bed.
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The air is thick with acrid smoke from the fires.
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These substrates share an acridan core but are substituted with different reactive moieties.
The Scientist
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The smoke's usual acridness was smothered by the residue of the liquor in her throat.
The Metrognome and other Stories
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A relapse; little sleep; urine throughout of a good color, but thin; the alvine evacuations were thin, bilious, acrid, very scanty, black, and fetid; a white, smooth sediment in the urine; had a sweat, and experienced a perfect crisis on the eleventh day.
Of The Epidemics
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(with the blood-poisoning and delirium above-mentioned), sometimes after an overdose, but oftener seeming to occur spontaneously, or in the midst of physical or mental agony as great and irrelievable as men suffer in hopeful abandonment of the drug, and with a colliquative diarrhea, by which -- in a continual fiery, acrid discharge -- the system relieves itself during a final fortnight of the effete matters which have been accumulating for years.
The Opium Habit
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As we gained it, the wind shifted, and a cloud of smoke, black and acrid, stung my eyes and made me cough.
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But the odour of the colourless liquid was of bitter almonds, acrid and terrifying.
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The air is stale and acrid, and a cluster of black flies hovers over the bed.
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Exotic birds include Indian mynah Acridotheres tristis and barn owl Tyto alba affinis.
Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve, Seychelles
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Acrid, metallic taste, constriction and burning in throat and stomach, nausea, vomiting of stringy mucus tinged with blood, tenesmus, purging.
Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
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So powerful were these smells - and Bardo's beery aroma and his own acrid sweat - that he scarcely heard the novice
THE BROKEN GOD
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It stinks of acrid smoke.
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I took a swallow of the whiskey and the acrid taste of it made me choke.
The Other Side of Me
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My burst shattered the wall above his head as he took the stairs full tilt; sending wood chips flying, half-deafening me and filling the tiny hallway with the acrid stench of cordite and hot lead.
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The pope, without violence or acridity seems to be saying: You too are called to discover Christ and to enter into the Church, if you so desire.
Islam
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He is soon on his way though, with his fellow passengers coughing through the acrid smoke polluting the cabin.
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her acrid remarks make her many enemies
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The cattle leave them alone because of their acrid taste.
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It is said to be extremely acrid -- even small doses producing a great disturbance of the stomach; employed as a rubefacient in fevers, gout, and rheumatism, and as a vesicatory in removing corns from the feet.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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To get that acrid taste out of our brains, herewith, our woman's edition of honoring National Poetry Month by actually reading some poetry.
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As he made his way to the bridge through dark clouds of acrid smoke, a second torpedo struck the ship.
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The air was acrid with smoke from buildings that had been set alight during the fighting hours earlier.
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The air is acrid with smoke from burning plastics and chemicals.
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Smith, who lives above the damaged flat, said the hallway had been filled with smoke and an acrid smell of burning.
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He's hiding behind huge sunglasses, a baseball cap and a cloud of acrid smoke.
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I took a swallow of the whiskey and the acrid taste of it made me choke.
The Other Side of Me
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The air was acrid with smoke from buildings that had been set alight during the fighting hours earlier.
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NK cell and K562 cell numbers and viability were measured by ethidium bromide/acridine orange staining.
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For even when coming into slight contact with the outer, vapory shreds of the jet, which will often happen, your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of the thing so touching it.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Harbinger was aware in his every nerve of the sweetish, slightly acrid, husky odour of the loosebox, mingling with the scent of
The Patrician
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The acrid fog raked at throats and made eyes and nostrils stream.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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The room filled with the acrid smell of tobacco.
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The air possessed a pungent, acrid smell because the cigarette had burned through a filter stub in the overflowing ashtray.
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Seen by day and by night, they read like the pit of hell shot with flashes of fire and filled with smouldering, acrid smoke.
The Times Literary Supplement
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An acrid smell filled the air.
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Leaves had turned black, and an acrid smell lingered in the air.
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All monarch caterpillars eat milkweed, a plant with an acrid latex containing potent cardiac glycosides, causing birds who eat the butterflies to vomit and learn to avoid them.
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He's hiding behind huge sunglasses, a baseball cap and a cloud of acrid smoke.
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I could smell the acrid scent of gunpowder.
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There was an acrid smell and smoke was starting to come under the door.
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The air was warm and acrid and the cinderblock walls were caked with soot.
The Omega Theory
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Such a person cannot escape, unless critical sweats and gentle sleep supervene, and thick and acrid urine be passed, or the disease terminate in an abscess: give pine-fruit and myrrh in a linctus, and further give a very little oxymel to drink; but if they are very thirsty, some barley-water.
On Regimen In Acute Diseases
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The hesitancy, the moral doubt of her conversation with Langham, seemed to have vanished wholly in a kind of acrid self-assertion.
Robert Elsmere
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Breathing hard now, the smell of powder drifting strong and acrid into his nostrils.
Man of Honour
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As he made his way to the bridge through dark clouds of acrid smoke, a second torpedo struck the ship.
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It appears from this study, comparing oxygen radical yields of these substances with those of the photosensitizing dyes in the classes including the xanthenes, acridines, thiazines, and phenazines, that these dyes may be even more potent producers of these highly toxic radicals.
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These effects are due to "pyrethrin" contained in the plant, which is an acid fixed resin; also there are present a second resin, and a yellow, acrid oil, whilst the root contains inulin, tannin, and other substances.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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He could smell above the all-pervading redolence of incense, the faint acrid smoke of the candle.
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For three hours a mysterious cloud of acrid smoke hovered over some of London's busiest streets.
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The night air is acrid with the scent of hundreds of citronella candles.
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The fog was yellow and acrid and bit at the back of the throat.
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But on the summit basin it can seem as if the acrid smoke faded away only yesterday.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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A white powder of a faint and not unpleasing savour," says he; and that, as you know, is nothing like cantharides, which is green, intensely acrid, and burning.
The Life of Cesare Borgia
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Cannabis smoke is far more acrid than tobacco and causes more damage to the lining of the airways.
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Seen by day and by night, they read like the pit of hell shot with flashes of fire and filled with smouldering, acrid smoke.
The Times Literary Supplement
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On June 1, 1921 the smoke hung like a grey, acrid cloud over Greenwood.
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Along with acridness of ashes and cinders came the odor of charred meat.
The Chaos Balance
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The acrid smoke, the heat of the air and the screams of the injured assailed my senses.
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The earth can be detected by its acrid smell.
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The television screen cracked and blew out, smoke and the acrid smell of burning rubber spilling from it.
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-- This euphorbiaceous plant has an acrid, milky, bitter juice; the root is emetic, and the dried branches are used medicinally.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
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Cannabis smoke is far more acrid than tobacco and causes more damage to the lining of the airways.
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The gale that had buffeted Emal earlier in the week had died down to a light but bitter wind out of the northwest, with but a hint of the iron-acridness of the Aerlal Plateau.
Darkness
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There is a far greater amount of virtuoso line drawing containing localized colors in these sheets, and the palette has become more acrid with the use of light yellows, pinks, oranges, beiges, greens, blues and mauves.
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The air is acrid with smoke from burning plastics and chemicals.
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The acrid smoke, the heat of the air and the screams of the injured assailed my senses.
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The water carried away some of the acridness and dustiness that seeped endlessly into his nostrils and dried his throat.
Fall of Angels
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He was nursing a cup of strong black coffee, revelling in the bittersweet, acrid tang and the caffeine rush it provided to his dozy brain.
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I could smell the acrid scent of gunpowder.
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These formulations are supplied in liquid form and are similar in texture to detergents although with a slightly acrid smell unless perfumed.
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So powerful were these smells - and Bardo's beery aroma and his own acrid sweat - that he scarcely heard the novice
THE BROKEN GOD
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Any acrid drug, as pyrethrum, held in the mouth acts as a sialagogue externally by stimulating the excretory ducts of the salivary glands; and the siliqua hirsuta applied externally to the parotid gland, and even hard substances in the ear, are said to have the same effect.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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A faint odor of vomit hung in the air, the acrid taste of puke in my mouth.
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Here, in a different hemisphere, the acrid smell of firework smoke makes me think of cold nights, short days, cuddling up inside next to the heater.
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These formulations are supplied in liquid form and are similar in texture to detergents although with a slightly acrid smell unless perfumed.
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And in defluxions upon the throat, from which are formed hoarseness, cynanche, crysipelas, and pneumonia, all these have at first saltish, watery, and acrid discharges, and with these the diseases gain strength.
On Ancient Medicine
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I couldn't even smell the usual acrid scent of burning leaves - so I knew it wasn't nearby.
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A cloud of acrid smoke is hanging over the city and on the roads all the shops are closed for fear of rioting.
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The author is best known for the acridness of his satire.
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Radiation from nuclear bombs and gaseous particles from nitrogen mustard and acridine orange have been used destructively in war.
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I hasten to spit it out, but all day my lips are still hot and acrid from the brief experiment.
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
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Consuming radish generally results in improved digestion, but some people are sensitive to its acridity and robust action.
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It stinks of acrid smoke.
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While the larger examples are best peeled (to remove their thick skins) and cooked (to mellow their acridity), the smaller, tender specimens can, like radishes, be served as is with butter and sea salt.
Why You Should Dig Turnips
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Though perfectly and classically cooked, the one I sampled had the muddy, acrid flavor of farmed fish.
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It ejected some intensely acrid fluid, which burnt my tongue so that I was forced to spit the beetle out.
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These formulations are supplied in liquid form and are similar in texture to detergents although with a slightly acrid smell unless perfumed.
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And in defluxions upon the throat, from which are formed hoarseness, cynanche, crysipelas, and pneumonia, all these have at first saltish, watery, and acrid discharges, and with these the diseases gain strength.
On Ancient Medicine
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Those caught in the acrid clouds of gas retreated to meet comrades in arms who treated their eyes with juice squeezed from lemons and bottled water.
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He nictitated several times, still annoyed with the acrid stench of slightly burned plastic housing.
The Demon
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The searing heat and dense, acrid smoke inside a burning building make it almost impossible for firefighters to see what is around them.
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She wrinkled her nose at the acrid, vinegary fumes emitted from the bottle.
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The faint odor of damp wool clung to her arms, and he wondered if the acridness of iron-gall ink clung to him.
The White Order
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You're pressing the fat out of the burger and then getting it back as very acrid smoke.
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The earth can be detected by its acrid smell.
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_papaverin_ also; while _meconin_, whose acrid properties in contact with animal tissue are similar to that of meconic acid, forms the last of the group.
The Opium Habit
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VII A cool mist shrouds Cyad, a mist that holds the tang of salt air, the fragrance of the late-blooming aramyds, and the faintest odor of the bitterness that reminds Lorn of chaos, an acridness far stronger within the Quarter of the Magi'i, but omnipresent throughout the great white city.
The Magi'i Of Cyador
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It rocked the wings and made an acrid smell.
Bomber
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It's unseasonably warm and sunny, as if God is trying to give New Yorkers a break and the sickly sweet smell of decaying flowers mixes with the acrid smoke.
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The air was acrid with smoke from buildings that had been set alight during the fighting hours earlier.
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Apoptosis was detected by acridine orange (AO) staining, DNA ladder assay and flow cytometric analysis.
Naturejobs - All Jobs
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There was thick, dark, acrid smoke.
The Sun
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Introduced from China, this taro has a relatively low acridity and is popular for taro chips.
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It rocked the wings and made an acrid smell.
Bomber
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She chomped on the cigar, and seething, she inhaled sharply and spewed a jet-stream of carcinogenic smoke into the acrid atmosphere between them.
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The acrid odour of paraffin, winter-dead trees and hedges, and the strange warmth of a duffel coat.
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For three hours a mysterious cloud of acrid smoke hovered over some of London's busiest streets.
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In heating the Indian turnip and other corms, it was found that the heat applied must be sufficient to change the character of the starch or the so-called acridity was not destroyed.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
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These were black and glistening with the rain and from them came an odor, acrid and penetrating, of decaying fish in ill-emptied gurry-butts and of putrefying livers oozing out a black oil in open casks.
Sweetapple Cove
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Cocculus indicus contains picrotoxin, which is an "acrid narcotic poison;" from five to ten grains will kill a strong dog.
The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages
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the skunk's intense acrid odor
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I could smell the acrid scent of gunpowder.
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It stinks of acrid smoke.
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The air possessed a pungent, acrid smell because the cigarette had burned through a filter stub in the overflowing ashtray.
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Here, in a different hemisphere, the acrid smell of firework smoke makes me think of cold nights, short days, cuddling up inside next to the heater.
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I was surprised by the acridity of my own response.
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But on the summit basin it can seem as if the acrid smoke faded away only yesterday.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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Dr. Tully also says it is a deobstruent or alterative, an acrid narcotic, an emetic, an epispastic, and an errhine; found very useful in gout, rheumatism, diseases of lungs, and some complaints of the bowels.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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The long curved counter glistens under the flare of the gas; the lines of gaudy bottles gleam like vulgar, sham jewelry; the glare, the glitter, the garish refulgence of the place dazzle the eye, and the sharp acrid whiffs of vile odour fall on the senses with a kind of mephitic influence.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour
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The filtered ether was clear, entirely free from raphides, and had also lost every trace of its acridity.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
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As he made his way to the bridge through dark clouds of acrid smoke, a second torpedo struck the ship.
Times, Sunday Times
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Several fires were burning, the green wood being used sending clouds of acrid smoke swirling among the tents and make-shift huts.
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There was thick, dark, acrid smoke.
The Sun
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The acrid smell of burning wood reminds me of my childhood.
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The searing heat and dense, acrid smoke inside a burning building make it almost impossible for firefighters to see what is around them.
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The searing heat and dense, acrid smoke inside a burning building make it almost impossible for firefighters to see what is around them.
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The steam from a boiling pot emits smells of paprika and spices that wash over the kitchen's somewhat acrid, greasy-spoon aroma.
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From these experiments the absence of acridity in these two plants, in spite of the abundance of raphides, may readily be explained by the fact that the minute crystals are surrounded with and embedded in an insoluble mucilage, which prevents their free movement into the tongue and surface of the mouth, when portions of the plants are tasted.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
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This keeps the spice from scorching; scorched Sichuan peppercorns have an acrid, bitter pungency which is less than salutary.
Tigers & Strawberries » My Precious
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The Mongols, like so many Eastern peoples, suffer much from inflammation of the eyes, the result of dirt, and even more of the acrid argol smoke filling the yurts so that often I was compelled to take flight.
A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia
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Such a person cannot escape, unless critical sweats and gentle sleep supervene, and thick and acrid urine be passed, or the disease terminate in an abscess: give pine-fruit and myrrh in a linctus, and further give a very little oxymel to drink; but if they are very thirsty, some barley-water.
On Regimen In Acute Diseases
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At its height more than 100 firefighters fought the blaze which sent a huge plume of black, acrid smoke billowing 1,000 ft into the air.
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The searing heat and dense, acrid smoke inside a burning building make it almost impossible for firefighters to see what is around them.
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The burning heavy plastic caused acrid smoke which left a thick layer of soot on over everything in the room and means an awful lot of cleaning up.
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Subsequent to the laser photolysis, leakage of acridine orange is observed via the increase in fluorescence under constant illumination with exciting light.
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The acrid stench of smoke from the fire had apparently dissipated over time.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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This system labels nucleic acids, antibodies, proteins, and peptides with chemiluminescent acridinium esters.
The Scientist
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He could smell above the all-pervading redolence of incense, the faint acrid smoke of the candle.
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A few species with acrid juice were formerly used as vesicatories.
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They wilted immediately, which took away their sting, and the smell of them was very green, like spinach but without the acridity and with a wild, nutty edge.
The Dirty Life
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This opinion was opposed by Prof. Burrill and other eminent botanists, who claimed that other plants, as the fuchsia, are not at all acrid, although they contain raphides as plentifully as the Indian turnip.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
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The acrid smell of burning tyre rubber is in the air.
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Whatsoever essence it derives from earth or water, all that conduces to its bitterness, its acridity, its unpleasantness.
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The searing heat and dense, acrid smoke inside a burning building make it almost impossible for firefighters to see what is around them.
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It's pronounced, as I'm sure you already knew, with the accent on the final 'a', not in a way to echo "acrid", though the second would be entirely suitable.
World Cup 2010: Ghana weeps, but remains hopeful
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This could lead not merely to low alcohol content but to acrid and pungent tastes and aromas as well.
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SINGAPORE — Indonesia said Friday it was moving to stem the haze caused by open burning in Sumatra Island, as Singapore informed Jakarta that respiratory illnesses were increasing because of the acrid smoke blowing in from its Southeast Asian neighbor.
Indonesia Seeks to Stem Haze
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Unfortunately, he offended Jerrold, by using the word "acrid" as applied to his writing, instead of some other word, which he could not think of at the moment.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
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You're pressing the fat out of the burger and then getting it back as very acrid smoke.
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Breathing hard now, the smell of powder drifting strong and acrid into his nostrils.
Man of Honour
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Accordingly, four plants containing raphides were selected, two of which, the _Calla cassia_ and Indian turnip, were highly acrid, and two, the _Fuchsia_ and _Tradescantia_, or Wandering Jew, were perfectly bland to the taste.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
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The first sign was the faint, acrid waft of smoke.
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The air possessed a pungent, acrid smell because the cigarette had burned through a filter stub in the overflowing ashtray.
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I gulped the acrid liquid.
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The earth can be detected by its acrid smell.
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This bacon tastes intensely smoky, the sort that comes only from long exposure to cool wood smoke, and not of meat soaked in acrid liquid smoke flavoring.
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Eight-year-old Bruno and his twelve-year-old sister Gretel find themselves alone with their mother in a cold, modernist estate-kept company only by soldiers, a stray inmate servant or two, far-off glimpses of "pajama" - clad "farmers," and a frequent plume of acrid, pungent black smoke.
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The acrid fog raked at throats and made eyes and nostrils stream.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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An acrid odour caught his attention.
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The room was filled with acrid smoke.