Two great hot tears, that scorched like fire, gathered in Mademoiselle de Monesthrol’s eyes, and fell upon her cheeks unheeded.
Every one of us, believe you, armed himself with a piece of iron heated red-hot, with which we scorched all the bodies of the heathens from head to foot.
Jack's car was not enough scorched to be more than barely noticeable from the rear.
It's all right now, though--just scorched a little in the rear!
Strewn with weeds and wreck, scorched by the sun, chilled by the night, how it listens for the sound of its coming!
I left my sweater hanging right in front of the fire when we came away--you remember it got all wet in the snowball fight this morning--and I bet it's scorched to cinders by this time.
The Captain returned with cotton and gauze and the oil and proceeded to bandage the scorched hands that had been so quick to avert disaster.
With the first note teacups and sandwiches were forgotten and the girls sat in a spellbound circle, while Sahwah stopped mopping her skirt with her handkerchief and the wet spot dried and scorched unheeded.
At that moment the servants began to come down, bringing between them a chest of no very great size but bound with brass and somewhat ornamented, though its color and appearance showed it to have been a good deal scorched with fire.
Their leader, George Dozsa, fell into the hands of John Zapolya, who ordered him to be placed on a red-hot iron throne, while his temples were scorched by an iron crown.
The grass around it was of the freshest and purest green, and when other grass-plots were scorched up by the July sun, this place seemed to be fresher and greener than ever.
Just suppose you were to see a fellow all scorched and burnt?
Where he also alludes to the old opinion of scorched dew.
The fine nets which oft we woven see Of scorched dew," says Spenser.
The iron rails swept up and sank again, the fever sucked at his bones, and the pillow scorched his cheek.
It would certainly put out the fire in his bones, he thought; it might even shut out the glare of the sun which scorched his eyeballs.
We walked on through the thick thyme, still fragrant though the sun had scorched its leaves.
Then suddenly the avenging angel drew aside the veil from the flaming ocean of sunlight, and in a moment the wings of the proud bird werescorched and shrivelled up, and he sank miserably to the ground.
On and on he went, over lava blocks and lava dust, basaltic rock and heavy clay, and hot blue earth and scorched and withered moss.
It was in flames, and she rolled it in her palms until little but its charred remains lay in her scorched fingers.
There was silence, while inside their little circle of rocks and sod amidst the scorched brush the five able-bodied white men and two boys waited.
Mrs. Rowan happy would have been a trivial woman, meaning no great harm, because meaning no great anything; but the fiery furnace of pain had scorched her up, and what remained was pure.
Drunkard was written all over him, in the scorched black hair, not yet turning gray, in the dry lips, bloated features, and inflamed eyes.
The glare of the world had scorched it up before it had fairly taken root.
Helen Williams used to complain bitterly to the housekeeper of this espionage, and Mrs. Bond used as strenuously to invoke the aid of the housekeeper in watching; so that the unfortunate woman was between two fires, and scorched pro and con.
X-Ray, thinking to pick up some information, called the child's attention to the scorched places on the heavy board, apparently done with molten metal.
He immediately proceeded to bite the coin, and then started to ringing it on the hard surface of the oak table that had all the scorched spots on it, mentioned by Phil.
What if the whole four of us started to advance, shooing with our hands, and whooping things up, wouldn't he just understand that he had to climb, whether he got his toes scorched again or not?
Then you know what your paw smelled like when the coals scorched it; and that is just the nasty scent that came down the air from Nichemous--like burnt skin.
Surely the unfortunate Carcajou had scorched his feet, and mayhap his back, when he fell in the fire-place.
Does a man give half a helmetful of gold for a few syllables of jargon scrawled on a bit of scorched parchment?
Ay, Rome was a fearful sight that day; the foot was scorched as it trod the ashes of the devastated city, the eye smarted in the lurid smoke that hung like a pall upon the heavy air and would not pass away.
Nay they defied me, despised the wrath that drank up the moisture of my eyes, blazed in my blood, and scorched my very soul!
Would that my scull were grinning there, and blanching; rather than as it is consciously parching, scorched by fires itself has kindled!
When we travelled, the leaves of the rock-roses, which here grow to the height of four or five feet, were hanging on the bushes scorchedand withered by the summer heat, somewhat marring the beauty of the evergreen thickets.
Huge half-burnt logs lay at the foot of some of the finest pines, and the flames had not only scorched all vegetation within reach, but eaten into the heart of the trees.
Only when the rains returned the two giraffes made their way hastily to the scorched plains.
But the visionary city would come no nearer, and gradually it would fade before their longing eyes--the mirage that had set it down amid the sands had vanished into aching sun-scorched space.
The day has been perfect, the temperature moderate till we came near land when the sun simply scorched us.
The scorched and bloody remnants of his corpse were, as he himself had requested, suspended on either side of the Gate of Naw, mute witnesses to the unquenchable love which the Báb had kindled in the breasts of His disciples.
With the skill of an Orpheus to soften the brute; With the fire of Prometheus to kindle mankind; Even Tyranny, listening, sate melted or mute, And corruption shrunk scorched from the glance of his mind.
In the interior parts, amidst the scorched and desolate deserts of Zaara or Biledugerid, they reign the masters; they lord it over every beast, and their courage never meets with a check where the climate keeps mankind at a distance.
Aristophanes describes it as mad for the love of the sun; and Theocritus, as scorched by the sun.
Loki, scorchedup in his heart's affections, had found a half-burnt woman's heart.
My garment is singed, although I lift it up, my cloak is scorched before it.
