The sultriness of the night, which was oppressive even in the street, was almost stifling in the little room with its scant western exposure.
The sultriness of the weather dampened his body, but not his spirits, and as he walked on, carrying his heavy bag, along York Street, his consciousness of the tremendous importance to the world of his decision exhilarated him like a tonic.
Vivian had intended to stop and breakfast after riding about ten miles; but he had not proceeded half that way when, from the extreme sultriness of the morning, he found it impossible to advance without refreshment.
My youth flourished in the unwholesome sultriness of a blighted atmosphere, which I mistook for the resplendent brilliancy of a summer day.
An oppressive sultriness, the breathless, sticky sultriness of the old heat of the day, which remained hanging in the thicket, made breathing difficult.
A cool breeze had succeeded the sultriness of the mid-day hours; and, aroused from its torpor, all animated nature was once more active and joyous.
The extreme sultriness of the day had disturbed the electrical equilibrium of the atmosphere, resulting in a thunderstorm of unusual violence.
The sultriness which had followed the brief storm was almost unbearable, and Tom felt as if he could not have selected a worse place in which to conceal himself.
The frequent thunder showers apparently did not cool the air and afforded no relief, as the sultriness seemed to be increased by each one.
Although Tom had indeed deserted his post, the organist was mistaken as to the cause and mode of his desertion: oppressed like every one else with the sultriness of the night, he had fallen fast asleep, leaning against the organ.
Verdeil could not resist the temptation; but I was fatigued with the howlings of the night, and the sultriness and bustle of the day, and went home to a quieter party with the Grand Prior and Don Pedro.
The day was excessively hot; and the oppressive sultriness of the atmosphere seemed to be felt by every living thing, except the mosquitoes, who flew about in myriads, plaguing both man and beast.
There was an oppressive sultriness in the atmosphere; and so great appeared the heat of the sun's rays, that the pitch oozed out of the seams of the vessel, and the timber became scorched and blistered.
Mid-day came, and brought with it the sultriness and cheerful brightness of a Norwegian summer's day.
Towards evening, the sultriness increased to a great degree, and respiration became painful, from the closeness of the atmosphere.
Van Berg soon appeared, but Miss Burton, on this occasion, managed that the singing should be maintained by quite a large group about the piano, and on account of the sultriness of the evening the service of song was brief.
It was, as he said, a splendid day--all sultriness dissipated by the strong wind.
The sun withdrew his light, it is true; but the sultriness that his reign had bred continued to brood over the earth; no dew refreshed it, no moisture wet the thirsty flowers.
Upon him and his mother lay the sultriness of a brewing tempest.
An indefinable embarrassment instantly sprang up between them, and a faint sultriness descended upon their conversation.
The anticipations raised by the extreme sultriness were fulfilled at first only in part.
The moist sultriness of the Fourth finished the ox-heart cherries.
I found sleep almost impossible from the sultriness of the air, and used to remain at the open window for the greater part of the night.
There was a sultriness in the air, even at that early period of the year, which to me seemed equal to that of Madras.
It was near the close of a day of withering sultriness that we reached Peoria.
The scorching sun had gone up in the firmament, blazed from his meridian throne, and in lurid sultriness descended to his rest.
Later, as they sat and talked after dinner on the close sultriness of the evening, he had unbuttoned the front of his shirt to let what little breath of wind there was play on his skin.
The strong rending of boughs from the fir-tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion is couched in his lair.
He got out and walked home through the moist sultriness of the Stadtpark.
Did she still often think of that wonderful hour in the park in the afternoon, amid the dark green sultriness of the park, in the warm perfume of the moss and the pines?
The branches spread themselves out without stirring, as though oppressed by the distant sultriness of the greyish sun.
And then on the afternoon, George and Sissy had found each other without any rendezvous in the dark green sultriness of the park amid the warm scent of the moss and the pines, while all the others were resting.
The garden with its perfume and its sultriness received him.
The sultriness had increased so as to have become almost unbearable, and the swarms of gnats above alluded to had grown numerous in proportion.
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