If you wander in London byways, you find that the people are fairly driven from their houses after a blistering summer day, and they sit in the streets till early morning.
What is Oldham like on a blistering midsummer day?
The horses, also fresh to this sort of service, grew gaunt, and dragged their miserably fed bodies over the blistering trail.
I was sometimes sure that it was raining in the night, and woke my husband to ask to have the ambulance curtains of our bed lowered; but it was always a false alarm; not a drop of rain fell in that blistering August.
Tears come to his relief freely,--so freely that he has to push the precious volume out of the range of theirblistering shower.
For six miles that gallant man drove his engine through the flames and blistering heat.
The hot airs quiver and boil from the twisting valleys or ridges of blistering sand and rock and through the pulsing heat the occasional pack train in the distance turns to a wavering, shimmering thread.
The blistering hours on the trail across the desert had left us as parched as a dried sponge, crackly and dusty and with brittle, peeling skins ravenous for moisture.
And the young American, still reclining on that gray, blistering rock, again rose to a sitting posture and clapped the glasses to his eyes to observe more clearly the result of his last trial at markmanship.
This always cooled or refreshed her, though she felt her face and neck blistering under the fierce rays.
That our huge, unshapely shingle structures, blistering in the sun and glaring with windows, were evidently never reared by the spell of pastoral harmonies, as the walls of Thebes rose at the sound of the lyre of Amphion?
Blistering may be produced by a cantharides plaster, or by painting with liquor epispasticus.
His brother hoes the ground, bare-headed throughout the blistering heats of July, but such exposure to the sun would soon give him the headache.
On the other hand in a blistering summer, cases have been known where the bride was found to be dead when the chair was deposited at the husband's home.
As Madden walked from the awning through the stinging sun rays, crimping up his naked feet from the blistering deck, Galton called to him.
Madden paused in the last yard of clear water, hung to his buoy, his big biceps flattened on the canvas cover and slowly blistering in the sun.
Others affirmed that blistering was done only in case of fevers, and that the pain inflicted caused the patient to break out in a profuse perspiration which relieved the fever.
Negrito woman of Zambales, pure blood, showing scars made byblistering for fevers, etc.
Boys of Zambales, showing scars made by blistering for fevers, etc.
The practice of blistering the body in case of sickness is very common in the Pinatubo region.
And the smile as they two, the woman and he, came together and their hands clasped, lighted his pale features with a ray brighter than that of the blistering Southern sunshine flooding down upon them both.
With the last word, he raised the book and struck the young man a blistering welt across the face with it.
If you could only fly as well as you can talk, you might make a half-baked blistering Flight.
The chairman's last words like a chemical reagent, had turned his every though to vitriol, and he was all afire with the impulse to pour it burning and blistering down their open throats.
The men tried football, and gave it up because of the blistering heat.
McMahon gave it as his opinion that B Company would be incapable of rushing anything when it had marched ten miles in blistering heat and had lain flat for an hour or two in a shadeless field.
The cloth of his trousers charred under the fire and held a constant heat against his body, and the pain from the blistering wound almost made him forget his desperation.
The whole yard radiated blistering heat like an oven.
After a run of about four hours from Port of Spain, Trinidad, we made La Brea at two o'clock in the afternoon of a blistering hot day.
Their huge, clumsy hulks were gray with time; their gaping seams told of hot, blistering suns, and upon their decks there lay an array of guns and armament, crudely ancient and unwieldy.
The sun shines down in savage mockery; it strikes upon the bare neck of the quivering wretch, who dare not lift a hand to shift his hat to cover the blistering skin.
Building News, in which he classified blistering and peeling of paint into one of blistering only.
This mode insures the smoothest and toughest foundation for the following painting, and may be exposed to the hottest July sun without fear of either blistering or peeling.
The second cause of paint blistering from the ingredients of the paint happens between any layer of paint or varnish on wood, iron, stone, or any other substance.
But water has an influence toward hastening to blister paint; it holds the unhardened woodsap in solution, forming a slight solvent of the oil, thereby loosening the paint from the wood, favoring blisteringand peeling.
Kansas is not Kansas till we march day after day, away from the sunrise, under the blistering noon sky, on, on over a straight west-going road toward the sunset.
Straight overhead the orb of noon Beat down with brimstone breath: The desert wind from south and west Was blistering flame and death.
The little blistering voices of pain that had called out from his scalp were, he thought, definite in their expression of danger.
Presently he began to feel the effects of the war atmosphere--a blistering sweat, a sensation that his eyeballs were about to crack like hot stones.
The others followed and soon all were comfortably seated in the shade, and happy to be out of the blistering African sunlight.
Dick knew well that the cool water would be the first thing these raiders would want after the long trip across the blistering hot sands.
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