The heat will parch the earth, So that flowers will wilt and droop their charm.
And parch the earth as the winds blow on scorching sprees, 'Til July's heat and August sun are duly past, Yet many things are fine and good at weary last For if the rain should come, good seed would surely die.
To scorch or parch with thirst; to deprive utterly of water; to consume.
If you have but fifty cents, and can get no more for a week, buy a peck of corn, parch it, and live on it, rather than owe any man a dollar.
I seed Old Missy parchcoffee in a skittle, and it good coffee, too.
They used to take bran and peanuts and okra seed and sich and parch 'em for coffee.
Dost know This thirst as I, and see as I the cool Lymph drawn from thee and mock thy lips; and parch For ever in continual thirst; and mark The fair fruit offered to thy hunger fade Before thy longing eyes?
To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
Thy lips the stream’s waves shall flee, thirst shall parch thee to whose chin its elusive waters mount.
Him nor the sands of rich Tagus’ flood by Tartessus’ town could satisfy nor the golden waters of ruddy Pactolus; should he drink all Hermus’ stream he would parch with the greedier thirst.
They boil or parch it, and eat it in the winter season {163} with their pemican.
This they also gather, and parch and store away in leather sacks, for the season of want.
If you have but fifty cents and can get no more for the week, buy a peck of corn, parch it, and live on it rather than owe any man a dollar.
Greeley said: "If I had but fifty cents a week to live on, I'd buy a peck of corn and parch it before I'd owe any man a dollar.
She persuaded the women of the land to parchwith fire the seed of the corn that their husbands sowed in the earth.
Then Achates struck a spark out of flint, and they lighted a fire with leaves and the like; also they took of the wheat which had been in the ships, and made ready to parch and to bruise it, that they might eat.
The heat, however, had lost none of its intensity, and every breath which we drew appeared to parch our lungs and consume us internally.
There are two classes of tradesmen, those who simply keep ovens and parch grain which is brought to them, and those who keep the grain and sell it ready parched.
The proper occupation of the caste is to parch rice.
In Saugor they say that their ancestors were Kankubja Brahmans who were ordered to parch rice at the wedding of the great Rama, and in consequence of this one of their subcastes is known as Kanbajia.
They are probably the same people as the Dhuris who also parch grain, and in Chhattisgarh are considered as a separate caste.
Who would not burn and sicken and parch with a delirious longing to divorce himself from so vile a herd?
Go where a cook must always be a currier, And parch the peppered palate like a pea, Go where the fierce mosquito is a worrier, And think of me!
The natives catch them in small nets, when they come to devour their potato-vines, and parch them over the fire in an earthen pan.
Nid oes ond a wypo a ddichon ddychymygu y parch a dalwyd yn Rhydychen i Heber, ar parch a delir eto i'w enw.
We raises lots of okra and dey say it gwine be parch and grind to make coffee for white folks.
We# raises lots of okra and dey say it gwine be | | parch and grind to make coffee for white folks.
Dey parch dat weed in de iron oven, grind it and put it in de iron pot.
They parchmeal in the oven and bile it and drink the liquor.
We have to take the meal and parch it and make coffee out of it.
No flour and no coffee, but us parch bran or wheat and make coffee.
