A sense of loneliness was on him, so real, so painful, that he shivered in the sweltering heat.
And in the sweltering heat of Fleet Street and Ludgate Hill he walked all the way to his City Club, lunched, and went back to his office.
By June the fort was sweltering in almost tropical heat.
It remains to secure the "article," to bring it safely into a realm that may be called civilized, to pack it and superintend its transport through the sweltering lowland to a shipping place.
It may very well be that on arrival at Savanilla he has to wait days in that sweltering atmosphere for the Royal Mail steamer.
Returned to Edinburgh late last night, and had a most swelteringnight of it.
In this pressing, sweltering labor, Gilbert dulled, though he could not conquer, his unhappy mood.
In the tight little supper-room over the Café de la Toison d’Or we were swelteringand dining at the expense of McTeague.
A very stout old lady, bustling through the park on a sweltering hot day, became aware that she was being closely followed by a rough-looking tramp.
Thus they toiled heavily on till the main ridge of the Alleghanies, a mighty wall of green, rose up before them; and they began their zigzag progress up the woody heights amid the sweltering heats of July.
She is a small thin woman of gingercake color and, despite the sweltering heat, she wore a pink flannel nightgown, faded and dingy, and a pair of high top black shoes, so badly run over that she hobbled along on the sides of them.
Williams is working in sweltering heat behind the boiler to get the door made in the bulkhead.
Hans Breitmann paddled across the deck in his pink pyjamas, a cup of tea in one hand and a cheroot in the other, when the steamer wassweltering down the coast on her way to Singapur.
It was a sweltering July afternoon in Smelter City, the air athrob with the derricks and the trucks and the cranes and the pulleys and the steam hoists and the cable car tramway run up and down the face of Coal Hill by natural gravitation.
I turned round, and to my no small astonishment, I saw the Giant Touarick, stretched along the full length of the very large hut, sweltering in the fulness of his might.
When she was sure the drums had finished, she rose slowly from the sweltering pallet that served as her bed and searched the floor in the half-dark till she felt the smooth cotton of her shift.
The sweltering room seemed frozen in time, except for Briggs, now motioning at Serina.
He liked the stars, the cool air so unlike his sweltering thatched hut on the plain, and the implicit confirmation his eyes were still as keen as they had been the morning he was baptized, over fifty years ago.
But which you discover quick enough is just a damned sweltering version of hell.
As they walked out into the courtyard, the cool night air felt delicious against her face and sweltering bodice.
English fashions, which she found absurd in sweltering Barbados, required all women of condition to wear this heavy corset, which laced all the way up the back, over their shift.
She loved being on deck to watch the dawn, out of the sweltering gloom of the Great Cabin.
He swabbed his brow, clammy in the sweltering heat, and wondered if all the islands of the Caribbees were like this.
His voice still carried the musical lilt of his native Kinsale, where he had been offered the choice, not necessarily easy, between prison for debt and indentured labor in sweltering Barbados.
The only sounds left in the sweltering predawn air were the cooing of wood doves and the harsh "quark" of egrets down by the bridge, accompanied by Joan's easy snores.
Outside the café Matadi lay smothered and sweltering in a black, living darkness, and, save for the rush of the river, in a silence that continued unbroken across a jungle as wide as Europe.
It afforded his soul the same relaxation that his body received when, in his shirt-sleeves in the sweltering smoking-room, he drank beer with a chef de poste who had been thrice tried for murder.
He kept well out round Pente-à-Fouille with its jagged teeth and circles of sweltering foam.
A moment for breath, and we slipped over the side, grateful for the cold bracing of the water on our sweltering skins, struggled through the few yards to the mouth of the tunnel, and crept through to the road.
Unremitting picket firing and occasional cannonading went on during the sweltering first half of the month of August.
The swelteringheat caused a gradual discarding of garments.
As I sat watching his agile fingers a bit drowsily, there came suddenly back to memory the almost forgotten days when I, too, had toiled thus in the gloomy, sweltering depths of a factory.
As an outlook upon the world she is well worth the coming; as a city she is almost monotonous, with her squat, white-washed houses sweltering in the omnivorous sunshine.
Figure to yourself that you have just returned from a morning of tramping through sweltering Madrid on the ephemeral breakfast already noted, and sit down at table just as a steaming puchero is served.
A roadside stream, of which the water was lukewarm, removed the grime of travel, and I climbed sweltering into the village of Escorial de Arriba, pitched on a jagged shoulder of the calcined mountain high above the monastery.
There was hardly standing room for them; scarcely a breath of air was to be got; the time was night, the weather sweltering hot.
In some countries an indolent unsheltered drive of an hour and a half under such conditions would have been a sweltering and prostrating experience; but there was nothing of that in this case.
The men, stripped to the waist and with handkerchiefs bound round their heads, stand at the guns all that sweltering day, with the coolness and the courage of old soldiers.
They had to content themselves with fighting mosquitoes, under the sweltering rays of a Southern sun.
When I regained the vestry I found it peopled with six or seven elders (a great and sweltering population), but no word of favour or approval escaped a single Scottish lip.
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