He says, he has known a whole Boat's Crew seized next Morning with bad Fevers by sleeping near the Mangroves, with which the Sides of the Rivers are frequently planted in the Torrid Zone.
When men have risen above the dark clouds of sin and ignorance they will discover how to preserve the extra warmth of the torrid zone and of the hot summers in our own latitudes to be evenly diffused through colder climes and seasons.
The names are significant--Snowy Range and Mountain of the Sun--for the landscape that unrolls itself between these ridges is a mixture of torrid glow and Alpine coldness.
All that tract of land lying between the stormy Euxine and the Adriatic is laid waste and plundered, no inhabitants dwell there; ’tis like torrid Africa whose sun-scorched plains never grow kindlier through human tillage.
The latter often change their form and occasionally their location under stress of the violent winds which sweep down from the torrid north.
Salamander-like, he had habituated himself to the torrid climate.
Let the frozen wain Demand your presence, or the torrid zone Wherein the day and night with equal tread For ever march; still follows in your steps The central power of Imperial Rome.
So fell the fang Of Dipsas in the torrid Libyan lands; In other climes less fatal.
For in the wintry year Were he in flood, when distant far the sun, His waters lacked their office; but he leaves His channel when the summer is at height, Tempering the torrid heat of Egypt's clime.
So that banished far Be war from Rome, I'll cross the torrid zone Or those for ever frozen Scythian shores.
He adopted the system of the ancients, who supposed that the torrid zone was uninhabited.
At first, during the torrid summer weeks, everything was so new and so strange there were no clean-cut outlines at all.
It is some consolation that a certain not-to-be-named friend was not on the hotel steps as I stole forth that torrid June morning.
It is no wonder that these people are so black, for they live under the scorching fire of the torrid Zone.
As the part situated at the vertex of the above-mentioned figure, and lying almost entirely under the torrid zone, is inaccessible, we speak of it from conjecture, and therefore cannot say what is the greatest breadth of the country.
Against the vapours and the torrid soil Alternately their shifting hands they plied.
Dahomy produces in perfection all the immense variety of fine fruits found within the torrid zone, and amongst others one of a most singular quality.
Reptiles and insects, though numerous, are not so troublesome or so venomous as in many parts of the torrid zone.
Its territory is generally so much elevated above the level of the sea, that it enjoys, though in the torrid zone, a comparatively salubrious and temperate climate.
You walk blinded by your own light in the torrid azure under the great arched skies, knowing nothing, unless it be that your strength is all-powerful and that your fire labours at the divine mysteries.
In that torrid climate, the development of the human frame is wonderfully rapid.
Lavinia Latchley is ready to accompany him to the prairie or the forest, to the torrid zone, or to the confines of the arctic seas!
Hooker, of European genera, found in Australia, but not in the intermediate torrid regions.
Seemann found the vegetation like that of Mexico, "with forms of the torrid zone harmoniously blended with those of the temperate.
Such was the place destined to be our home for six torrid months; and we had to transform it into a fortified camp!
But how much hotter are Venus and Mercury than the Torrid Zone?
The Torrid Zone of the Earth is not free from moisture; it has its rains, for it has its upper colder atmosphere.
From thence we went to that part of Ethiopia which is called Besilica[1], which is situated in the torrid zone and first climate, in 14° of north latitude.
We have here omitted two sections of very uninteresting cosmographical observations on the antipodes, the torrid zone, the climate of the Western hemisphere, and the peopling of America.
Since our departure from the Cape Verde islands, we had been always in the torrid zone, and had twice crossed the equator, insomuch that the remaining provisions in our ships were much injured by the heat of the climate.
This land is situated in the torrid zone, directly under the parallel described by the tropic of cancer, and in the second climate, where the pole is elevated 23 degrees above the horizon[9].
They farther urged against the admiral the commonly received opinions concerning the five zones, by which the torrid zone is declared utterly uninhabitable, and many other arguments equally absurd and ridiculous.
Here is also set down the formerly unknown torrid zone, lately visited by vessels from Spain, and now well known to many.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "torrid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
