The wreaths of vapor trailed themselves away, breaking into steamy garlands and flat patches with scalloped edges as they went.
Columns of steamy vapour moved back and forth and enclosed them, and the sun set in a red mist.
The days grew very hot; the sun burned the grass, and over them hung clouds of steamy vapour.
The return journey the next day across the plain was as charming as ever, but the steamy heat of the low level was very depressing, and we were all glad to take to a boat for the last twenty-two li.
As I had been warned, the weather changed here, and for the next twenty-four hours we sweltered in the steamy heat of the Yangtse basin.
Deep layers of dead leaves cover the frozen earth, and the sun shining on them raises a steamy vapour unlike anything else in nature.
THE QUEST OF THE DREAM GIRL The Harvester breakfasted, fed the stock, hitched Betsy to the spring wagon, and went into the dripping, steamy woods.
Sickness lurked in the steamy forest, where the gloom was touched by mystery and something of horror.
In the steamy heat of the forest, exertion soon wears a white man out, and the negroes were needed to carry food and some shelter from the dew at night.
It was a daunting country and the gloom of its steamy forests was the shadow of death.
The result, as the cold air constantly sank into the warm, was a thick steamy blanket of fog that covered everything perpetually.
The chorus of hissings and bellowings would increase as he hastened slowly and laboriously back to the ship, indicating that other unseen monsters of the steamy jungle had flocked to tear the dead giant to pieces and bolt it down.
She had never before seen them except when they were covered by an ill-fitting sleeve or, if they had been bare to the elbow, uninvitingly terminating in a pair of housemaid's gloves or hands steamy with dishwashing.
The chenars of Bejbehara threw a most welcome shade from the noonday sun, which was striking down with evil force as we panted across the steamy rice-fields which surround them.
July and August are hot and steamyin the valley, and it is necessary to seek one of the cool "Margs" which form ideal camping-grounds on all the lofty mountain slopes which surround the valley.
The next few days he was indeed singularly busy in his steamy little hothouse, fussing about with charcoal, lumps of teak, moss, and all the other mysteries of the orchid cultivator.
In a few weeks all thought of considering themselves as prisoners was forgotten, and Murray and Ned were as busy as it was possible to be in that hot steamy climate.
It was filled with the smells of steamy washing and fried fish.
Thanks to this the coot is able to thrive in every kind of climate: in foggy, damp England; in the hot, steamy swamps of Sind, and in cold Kashmir.
We could only repeat the sips of brandy and water, and endeavour to warm the chilly little body with steamy flannels.
However sharply defined by reason of the personal discomfort it inflicts, this steamy feature of the wet season is no more a general characteristic than the hot winds are of Victoria.
Clear, calm, bright days, days of even and not high temperature, and of pure delight, dovetail with the hot and steamy ones.
Midge made her appearance, as soapy and steamy as ever.
In the pleasant, steamy sun-warmth of those stellene interiors, they bounced back and forth from elastic wall to elastic wall, with gravity temporarily at zero because they had stopped the spin of their bubbs.
I imagine the Moon as it once was, with volcanoes spitting, and with thundrous sounds in its steamy atmosphere.
For two days, on a faint trail, in a steamy heat pulsing with chromatic birds and lizards, they journeyed through the forest, the skirts of the vast Ituri whose deepest recess is the home of the pygmy.
Through the steamy heat they followed all day until they came out upon a river near to a village upon the border of the forest.
In the steamy heat a continual mutter and rustle persisted, punctuated by the harsh scream of a green parrot or the squawks of a troop of monkeys.
Then came a deep rumbling from the opening, a hot gush of steamy air and a violent report from away in the direction of the volcano, and silence once more deep and profound.
He knew now that the steamy vapour into which they had penetrated must be full of gas perilous to human life--that the emanations from the volcanic soil were asphyxiating, and he completely lost his head, and tottered feebly here and there.
Now and then she threw on water so that it was quite steamy when the other members of the family came trooping in.
It grew hotter and hotter in the room and more and more steamy as the different members climbed on the step-like platforms and beat themselves with the birch twigs which now gave forth a pleasant fragrance.
Through the steamy windows one can see they are packed with compact clouds of helmeted men.
Another minute, part of the field grew dark under a steamy and whitish film, a sort of hurricane of snow.
She rejoiced in her beauty, in her renewed strength; she often stood for many minutes in the dim steamy light of the room, analysing her body, its grace and youth, with a growing consciousness of latent power.
Don caught his arm, for there was another whistle, and not from the depths of the dark steamy cave, but from outside, evidently below the mouth of the cave, as if some one was climbing up.
A hot, steamy breath of air came like a puff into his face, and a strange low moaning noise fell upon his ear, followed by a faint whistle, that was strongly suggestive of some one being already in hiding.
He put his arms round her massive waist and kissed her wet steamy lips.
To enter Martin's room, they passed through the kitchen, warm and moist and steamy from the big washing in progress.
The steamy smell of dirty clothes, which had entered with her from the kitchen, was sickening.
