sulphitic

Updated: June 18, 2025

The dazzling country side, the sulphitic brew of races, the cosmopolitan "city" have taken care of that.

Inez Haynes Gillmore - The Native Son

When they present a gift, it has either rhyme or reason to it. Their letters are not passed about to be read by the family. Hamlet was a Sulphite; Polonius a Bromide. Becky Sharp was sulphitic; Amelia Sedley bromidic. So we might follow the line of cleavage between the two groups in Art, Religion and Politics.

Gelett Burgess - Are You a Bromide? : The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use

Read his biography and learn the terrors of his formal, set entertainments to the little girls whom he patronized! They knew what to expect of him, and he never, however agreeably, disappointed them. No, unfortunately a Sulphite does not always produce sulphitic art. How many writers we know who are more interesting than their work! How many who are infinitely less so!

Gelett Burgess - Are You a Bromide? : The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use