One sultry afternoon early in July Flossy, with Violante and two or three elder girls, had been to a lecture which had been held in Oxley by some celebrated personage.
About noon, after a sultry journey of nine hours, they fortunately arrived at a bog, in which they found a pool of most fetid water, which nothing but necessity could have compelled either them or the exhausted animals to drink.
Under the mass of vapour the temperature, warm before, became sultry and oppressive.
The tall green trees shut out all but a narrow lane of sky, azure, but darkening; not the faintest breath of moving air relieved the sultry brooding heat of the summer twilight.
Her snowy wing shall fan, Aside the frozen Hebrides, Or sultry Hindostan!
These rains, and the close sultry weather accompanying them, too often bring on sickness in this passage.
Precautions against the Rain and sultry Weather in the Neighbourhood of the Equator.
The hot and sultry weather we had just passed through, had opened her seams, which had been badly caulked at first, so wide, that they admitted the rain-water through as it fell.
From this time to our meeting with the south-east tradewind we had much wet weather, the air close andsultry with calms, and light variable winds generally from the southward.
The Petrel had reached the region of the equatorial calms, the sultry Doldrums dreaded by the sailor, that broad belt of sluggish sea that divides the tract of the north-east trade wind from that of the south-east.
Even in the sultry monotony of that changeless sea-like desert summer is not endless.
And beyond all expression was it glorious to bathe in by early morn or sultry eve.
Early the next morning, a sultry morning of July, while they were taking their breakfast, they were startled by the report of fire-arms.
It was a forced march, on a sultry day, under a burning sun and amid clouds of dust.
Heavy rains and sultry summer heat retarded his movements; but the army crossed on the 24th.
The firing was heard by the Duke de Lauzun, who was just arrived with his troops at Eastchester, fatigued by a long and forced march in sultry weather.
Both armies, however, needed repose, and military operations were suspended, as if by mutual consent, during the sultry summer heat.
They have heavy feet and sultry hearts:--they do not know how to dance.
Sultry heart and cold head; where these meet, there ariseth the blusterer, the "Saviour.
The odour of dust-covered eternities did I breathe: sultry and dust-covered lay my soul.
It was a hot night--so sultry as to suggest the proverbial thunderstorm, though the sky was clear and starry.
That night, the last sultry heat of autumn burst in a storm more violent than Edge Combe had known for half a century.
In the woods, instead of being cool, it was so sultry that men and horses lacked air for breathing.
The hoofs of the horses rattled over the stones, around about reigned the dull silence of the desert; but grasshoppers and crickets hidden in the cliff chirped, for it was a sultry day, though the sun had passed the meridian considerably.
May had departed, followed by a sultry June, while they had barely finished a third of the journey, for the road was long and difficult.
The night is so sultry that there is not a dry thread on me.
Under a sultry mid-summer sun they moved forward, step and stroke in unison, sometimes humming in concert.
We are bearers of the rain To the grasses, and flowers, and grain; We guard you from the sun's bright rays, In the sultry summer days.
They drank the freshness of the hour in thirsty draughts, and their breasts heaved rejoicing and revived, after the feverish, long confinement of the sultry summer day.
Ye denizens of the crowded city, how pleasant to you is the change from the sultry streets to the open fields, fragrant with clover-blossoms!
The air wassultry and still, as if full of spent thunderbolts.
It was a sultry summer evening, when Kalzow, with his wife and the Kreisgerichtsrath, sat on the Fuchs-spitze.
It had been a sultry day; a heavy storm rose above the lake, a violent tempest lashed the waves, before a quarter of an hour had elapsed since the riders left the castle-yard.
The day has dawned--but not a breath Sighs through the sultry air; The heavens above and earth beneath One gloomy aspect wear-- Horror and doubt and wild dismay Welcome the dawn of that fatal day.
And then, as Sheila sang now, making the monotonous and plaintive air wild and strange-- What cries of wild despair Awake the sultry air?
My good creature, how can you sit stewing over that plain sewing thissultry afternoon?
Too languid and miserable to find a cooler place, I sat on the piazza hour after hour, and watched listlessly the slowly-declining sun, the inanimate and sultry landscape.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sultry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
