Burton came in in a moment, a red-haired young fellow, with a short thick nose and a muggy skin.
I think I should find a point of vantage, like an overlooking window in an empty building like this, and I would wait for a muggy night, also like this, when the windows were up and the lights going.
Have the eggs very cold, butter soft but not oily, flour dry and light--sun or oven-dry it in muggy weather.
In damp muggy weather moisture is absorbed from the atmosphere.
I recall it being very hot and muggy there off the Gulf of Mexico.
It was very hot and muggy as we were there in June, July and August.
It's a magnificent afternoon; a little fresh air won't do any harm after that muggy room.
She unbuttoned her light traveling coat, and inhaled with deep enjoyment the moist, somewhat muggy breeze that was curling along the surface of the river.
It was in the middle of a blistering, smothering hot forenoon in early June, muggy and still and close, when a fellow breathing felt as though he had his nose buried in layers of damp cotton waste.
If I live to be a thousand years old I am not going to forget the state convention that began at two o'clock that muggy September afternoon at Lyric Hall up on Washington Street in the old part of the town.
He held that cholera was a germ that propagated itself as it flew through a muggy atmosphere; and stuck in the branches of trees like a wool-flake.
The weather was warm and muggy in spite of the punkha waving in the room, pulled by the uncertain hand of a coolie half-asleep in the verandah.
Jack used mine on a muggy night to keep the window open, and as it rained half the time, my property was reduced to pulp.
The twain vanished into the darkness, leaving the dank, reeking odours of dirt and sweat in the muggy air.
His saturated clothes were throwing off wisps of muggy vapour.
Even in February, the weather would, up-country, be called muggy and stifling, but Calcutta is convinced that it is her cold season.
They went to the foot wall and with a scraper brought out some of the muggy mass caused by the pouring of water into the "down-hole" to make the sittings capable of removal.
On muggy days we are somewhat in the condition of the unfortunate prisoners in the Black Hole at Calcutta.
MUGGY DAYS There are certain days, more noticeable in summer than at other times, when the air is heavily laden with water vapor; and there is little or no cooling of the body due to evaporation.
That is why a brisk northwest wind routs a muggy condition.
I'll have a bit of a sleep while you are out: the muggy weather always makes me so drowsy.
The muggy day has made me wonderfully drowsy, and I'll be glad to lie down.
But she filled the old house, once so muggy and dark, with all the cheer and comfort of life.
On a muggy Wednesday, we dangled our feet over the edge of the Liberty Belle's riverboat pier, watching the listless Confederate flag over Fort Langhorn on Tom Sawyer Island by moonlight.
Mott, in his "Treatise of the Boston Terrier," named "Muggy Dee.
Thus in little, dull labors and the large pleasure of looking forward, the muggy August days panted out their course and the September twilights shortened.
But Miles turned doggedly in his steps, through the first crisp thickets and then along the miry ground by the edge of the pool, where the air was somuggy that he wondered Ned cared to keep up his reckless pace.
He figured that men of such muggy mentality didn’t care to spend any time in their dull homes, and so he couldn’t see any approximately sane reason for shortening working hours.
Indoors, in still and muggy weather, when one is jammed in a throng for an hour or two, a toga becomes an instrument of torture.
Agathemer and I spent the whole day in our hiding place, suffering terribly from the heat, for the day was hot, muggy and breezeless, so that the still sultry air was stifling.
We've just time to do it," he said, put two fingers into his mouth and sent a piercing whistle into the muggy April evening.
There was a muggy warmth in it which relaxed their muscles and insidiously slackened the domination of their will.
The two that looked forward were swept by spray that beat on them like a shot, and overhead funnel-guy and wire rigging screamed in wild arpeggios under the impact of the muggy gale.
They had also an unreasoning and half-instinctive confidence in the man who led them, and in due time they plodded into sight of the town one night when the muggy land breeze was blowing.
Indeed, it was so still that the soft rustle his duck garments made as he moved jarred on him, and he was glad when the little muggy breeze flowed into the veranda again.
The men were gone, but on the bare logs, where Buffle usually reposed, they had spread their coats neatly, and covered them with a blanket which little Muggy usually wore.
Little Muggy edged his way through the crowd, threw away his quid of tobacco, took the baby from Buffle, and kissed it a dozen times.
In muggy weather it is impossible to do good work; often, indeed, it is impossible to do any work at all.
Do not try to make candy on a muggy day; the results probably will be unsatisfactory.
