This morning set in intensely hot, by noon the thermometer standing at 107 degrees in the shade, and at 3 p.m., when placed on a sandbank in the sun, rose to 178 of Fahrenheit; on the setting in of the westerly breeze it, however, fell at once to 96 degrees, and by 4.30 p.m. we were enabled to resume our route without feeling in any way inconvenienced by the temperature.

A perfectly clean wooden bowl is best for this operation, one for moderately hot and another for cold water.

As the day was excessively hot, and the game kept close, John felt willing to return from such unprofitable labor.

'Won't it be terribly hot?' said Lady Everard vaguely.

The days were oppressively hot and the nights bitterly cold.

"Glad there is no sun," said Jack, "it would be awfully hot down here.

For the first week in June the weather was unusually hot: a candle left all day in the "Main-top" was found drooping out of the perpendicular, and when the Triple Alliance retired to rest their bedroom felt like an oven.

So the two youths played very fiercely at their game, and they waxed exceedingly hot

It was most fearfully hot.

It began to grow insufferably hot in the pilot house.

Asphalte is suitable for either in mild weather, but in summer it becomes uncomfortably hot for the feet, unless it is partly composed of cork.

" "Pretty soon," continued Uncle John, "it's going to be dreadfully hot in New York, and we'll have to get away.

Got a hold of an old pal of his, named Levine, and he is a mighty hot scrapper.

"How did you know thator is it merely hot air?" "I knew that he would come," said Godfrey, curtly, "because he wrote and told me so.

It's beastly hot.

It was so stiflingly hot that at last some onethe Comtesse, I believeasked to have the windows opened on to the terrace.

But it will be remembered that the summer of 1898 was exceptionally hot, so hot indeed that M. Zola, though many years of his childhood were spent under the scorching sun of Provence, found a siesta absolutely necessary after the midday meal.

As already observed, it was an intolerably hot day.

" "But, oh, Chet, it's so frightfully hot," Billie objected.

From these and other vents, however, came intermittent puffs, or continuous fillets of smoke, and the air was almost overpoweringly hot and sulphurous.

It was nearly two hours past noon, the sun fiercely hot, and our horses were nigh jaded out with the rough road and our impatient spurring.

The top of the hill was a sun-crowned eminence, blazingly, blisteringly, suffocatingly hot.

The air, which the day before had been painfully hot and stived, was cool and fresh, and from flowers and spice-trees, on which the dew still lay, went forth a thousand fragrant exhalations.

Our engraving illustrates a cheese-toaster with hot-water reservoir: the cheese is melted in the upper tin, which is placed in another vessel of boiling water, so keeping the preparation beautifully hot.

Screened as we were from the lightest breath of wind, it was cruelly hot in that hiding-place.