It poured, searing the vision, into the ladle, over which rosy clouds accumulated in a bank drifting through the great space of the shed.
He was aghast at the unsuspected possibility revealed, as it were, out of a profound dark by the searing flash of his anger, cold at the thought of such absolute self-betrayal.
The dope helped to kill all but the worst waves of searing pain; between them I managed to grind out, "How did you sell her that bill of goods, Thorndyke?
My hand was a source of searing heat and freezing cold and the pain of being crushed and twisted and wrenched out of joint all at the same time.
After a keen reconnoissance from the safe seclusion of a clump of young pines Searing ran lightly across a field and through an orchard to a small structure which stood apart from the other farm buildings, on a slight elevation.
Pausing a moment in one of these rifle-pits to apprise the men of his intention Searing crept stealthily forward on his hands and knees and was soon lost to view in a dense thicket of underbrush.
Searing crept on, taking advantage of every accident of ground and growth to give himself better cover.
Concealing himself in the debris of joists and flooring Searing looked across the open ground between his point of view and a spur of Kennesaw Mountain, a half-mile away.
When Jerome Searing recovered consciousness he did not at once understand what had occurred.
But it was decreed from the beginning of time that Private Searing was not to murder anybody that bright summer morning, nor was the Confederate retreat to be announced by him.
Had anything in all this vast concatenation been overlooked Private Searing might have fired on the retreating Confederates that morning, and would perhaps have missed.
Searing regarded them at first with indifference, then with friendly interest; then, as the thought flashed into his bewildered mind that they might touch the trigger of his rifle, he cursed them and ordered them to go away.
Searing was not seriously injured, nor did he suffer pain.
Still, Private Searing did not altogether relish the situation, and turned away his eyes.
Taurus Antinor passed his hand across his forehead as if to chase away the brain-searing thoughts.
He laid his hand upon her, and she shrank as she would have shrunk from a hot iron searing her flesh.
It hurt her like the searing of a flame, and yet in the hurt there was rapture.
Fishes live in the great sea between Abyssinia and Bombay, and he whose eyes have not suffered under Oubie's searing irons, might behold numbers every day of the voyage.
Years have rolled away since that withering moment," he exclaimed; "but the wound is yet green in the mind, and the feeling is still fresh as when writhing under the searing iron of the tyrant.
The mechanical sent out a searing beam of orange light that tore the gloom, blinding him briefly.
A silent explosion of light, searing and unendurable, blasted the night.
Upon him also dooth the sergeant or chiefe farrour attend with those irons, whose office is to deliuer them to the said surgeon when he shall be redie by searing to vse the same.
But he thought of Carrington now; and he sat stiff and rigid in the chair, glowering, his lips in a pout, his soul searing with hatred.
Visions of eternal torment rose in her mind, a tangible searing hell alive with flame and devils, a sea of liquid fire, an ocean of boiling pitch, Satan commanding in the midst, and a myriad of fiends working his tormenting will.
Twice he pressed its release and twice the searing blue flame spurted from the glass tube that was its muzzle.
The ray pistol crackled harmlessly, its deadly energy spending itself in searing the metal of the ceiling.
Yes--he remembered now--that burning like the searing of a hot iron.
Putting his foot on a bogey wheel, he reached up and grabbed the searing metal rim of the open window.
It had an intensity Lea had never experienced before, a physical weight that pushed at her with a searing hand.
He took off his coat, threw open the door and stepped out into the searingbrilliance of the Disan noon.
The deadly beam from his weapon slithered over the wall, searing a great molten gash in the crystal.
Hilary was caught between two fires, exposed to the searing blasts that would issue at the slightest pressure.
Hilary found some natural recessions under overhanging masses of rocks that would afford protection from the searing power of the rays.
These words burned into the heart and brain of the craven Greek, and he winced and shrank beneath them as if a hot iron were searing his quivering flesh.
Dworn, two hundred yards away, felt a searing breath of heat, and with a great effort controlled the impulse to whirl round and race for opener ground.
I only recollect that, half-blinded, hot searing pangs shooting along my optic nerve, I found myself free of him.
Barreau rubbed the whitened places with snow till the returning blood stung like a searing iron.
Madness stood guard at the door; the searing air was its breath; and its eyes the lurid glare of the oil lamp stifling in the maw of a soot-grimed globe.
No one below Class Three was allowed to carry a beamgun, and only Ones and Twos were allowed to wear the screening fields that protected them from the nerve-searing effects of the weapon.
When the first slanting rays of the new-risen sun reached him, they shed their light upon a man on whom physical hardship had laid its searing fingers heavily.
Hence the emotion no less that the experience itself was novel; clean, searing anger.
Now suddenly all emotions were upgathered into searing anger.
What possessed you to take that Boyd girl to the Searing Building the other night?
You get the police to search the Myers Housecleaning Company, in the Searing Building.
On the day that Lily received her engagement ring from Louis Akers, one of the cards of the new Vigilance Committee was being inspected with cynical amusement by two clerks in a certain suite of offices in the Searing Building.
