We were often obliged to drink the muddy rain water which remains in the ditches, though the very beasts, unless parching with thirst, would have refused it.
Barreda, parching with thirst, was so pleased with this civility, that, not perceiving the deceit, he restored to the good man the title of captain.
This was nothing to be complained of by persons who had left the parching land in order to get cool.
He was a willing, lively little waiter, with his moony face on the top of his head; and he jumped round in the rain like a parching pea, rolling his head about in the funniest manner.
Now his soul would like a river Turned upon its parching liver.
O Ravlin, what cold water, thrown by whom Upon the kindling Boycott's ruddy bloom, Has slaked yourparching blood-thirst and allayed The flash and shimmer of your lingual blade?
And is it not perfectly obvious that if we trim up the trees so as to produce a long stem with a small crown, the parching winds will sweep unchecked over plants and soil?
With cracked and parching lips they uttered prayers of thanksgiving, and worn out with the struggle let sacks and brooms drop from their nerveless hands and stood still.
The family dispensed with every garment possible, and sat under the canvas covers fairly parching with heat, while the hot wind seemed fairly to scorch the prairies, and to burn and shrivel their skins.
How welcome after the parching heat of the prairies was this cool, green, quiet place!
The very bricks, sun-baked and scarred, spoke of the weariness of heat, of the parching thirst of the interminable summers.
And beyond this parching desert of the present he saw again that enclosed garden of sweetness and bloom, which was Virginia.
It was only a few weeks after the Indian attack described before the parching heat of summer began to give way before the dreaded wintry breath of the North.
The boys, footsore from the long tramp, with a gnawing hunger and parching thirst and nothing to satisfy either, their destination they knew not how far off, and no means of reaching it other than afoot.
There were cloud heaps sailing, and dead leaves blowing along the terrace, the bitter parching wind was still blowing.
In the Central Provinces also grain-parching is distinctly a woman's industry, only twenty-two per cent of those shown as working at it being men.
The rates for parching are a pice a seer or an eighth part of the grain.
Risley states that "Throughout the caste the actual work of parching grain is usually left to the women.
Chris, as he now heard the soft musical trickle which roused within him a parching feeling of thirst.
Finding the desired place, we went into camp, building a fire, parching some corn, warming up well and getting a good sleep.
A little farther on we came to a corn crib which had in it about 150 bushels of corn, and here we had a feast, building a fire and parching the corn.
We had actually got to the very last house, when our poor friend Ashworth felt extremely exhausted, and expressed that his parching thirst obliged him to ask for a draught of water.
But if after a spasm or two, silence reigned again, Roger would pull his hat over his eyes and start for the ranch, and eventually that day, water would be given the parching fields.
He met Elsa just as the afterglow disappeared and the parching night came down like a star dotted curtain.
And always the quivering, parching air that burned against the body like a furnace blast.
A curiousparching of throat and tongue left her striving to moisten her trembling lips.
Her parchingtongue moved in a vain effort to moisten them.
Sing the sweet song of other days, Serenely placid, safely true, And o'er the present's parching ways The verse distils like evening dew.
Mrs. Selden, sitting opposite her brown paper bundles, waved her fan and looked out on the parching trees and the straggling, vine-embowered houses.
Followed by Young isham, Rand travelled on by the dusty road, between the parchingelder and ironweed, blackberry and love vine.
The ceaseless, parching winds had not dimmed the lustre of her clear blue eyes, nor deadened the gloss of her soft flaxen hair.
As the flowers of the field wither away in parching drought, even so would the beauty of happiness fall from her shrinking soul.
Each pore and natural outlet shrivell'd up By ignorance and parching poverty, His energies roll back upon his heart, And stagnate and corrupt till changed to poison, 115 They break out on him like a loathsome plague-spot!
Its parching tongue had lapped the water from our water-skins, and having escaped the fiery hour, we had to fear the still more awful death of thirst.
We have in these divine words the smiting and parching of Saharan sun and heat, and the Lamb-Shepherd leading the drooping flocks to the living life-giving springs of the oases of Desert.
