Added to this were the facts that the ice-water in the coolers scalded the mouth; the brass-work on the seats blistered the hands; and the empty stoves, almost red-hot from their exposure to the sun, superheated the cars to a degree that was maddening.

" Ford would have pulled it now if he had blistered all the skin off his hands in doing so; and he did very creditable work for some minutes, among the turns and windings of the narrow inlet.

They are as follows: (a) Blistering the Coronet.

And such oranges: golden- green, but rather more green than gold, which cannot be (as at home) bitten or sucked; for so strong is the fragrant essential oil in the skin, that it would blister the lips and disorder the stomach; and the orange must be carefully stripped of the outer coat before you attack a pulp compared with which, for flavour, the orange of our shops is but bad sugar and water.

I blister my face, and freeze my back, just as we used to in the old days of glorious October at the farm in New Sharon, where my mother was born, and where I spent my summers and part of the autumn in my school-days.

I've blistered three fingers, and put lop-sided heads to two miserable pins, and left no end of wax splutters on my table.

I wander through those deserted salas sometimes, and, as the tears blister my eyes, imagination and memory people the cold rooms, and I forget that the dashing caballeros and lovely doñas who once called Monterey their own and made it a living picture-book are dust beneath the wild oats and thistles of the deserted cemetery on the hill.

But if I had blistered my feet, and the leveloo had been a nut-vine, the fruit was worth the scratches.

"why tears were made salt!they would not blister one half so much if they were fresh water.

It was a day of blistering heat.

Landor did not, but at the first dawdling prairie creek that offered water and, with its struggling fringe of willows, a suggestion of shade, he gave the word to halt, and for four mortal, blistering hours while, man and beast alike, the others slept, kept watch over them from the nearest rise.

It was so near to the great gun, that the heat almost blistered the men who worked it, and for awhile their magazine was in great peril.

It also has been known to blister the mouths and nostrils of cattle when feeding where it grows.

" "Look," said Mr. Danforth, holding the letter under the stony eyes of Sandford,"see where the tears blistered the paper!" All the while, Mrs. Fletcher kept up an inarticulate moaning, though the sound grew fainter from exhaustion.

Men were herded like cattle in blistering "bull-pens," to be freed after months of misery, looking more like skeletons than human beings.

And there was a tremolo defect in the organ tone with which she now again demanded in blistering politeness, "May I ask what this means?" The quick-thinking Merle twin had by now devised an exit from any complicity in whatever was meant.

He was really hot-tempered and on a few well-authenticated occasions fell into passions in which he used language that would have blistered the steel sides of a dreadnaught.

He will tell you that if you continue to use pepper like that for a long durationsay seventy or eighty yearsyou will have iron enough in your stomach, from the filings, to make a ten-pound dumb-bell, and blistering stuff sufficient from the Spanish fly to draw all the interest of the National Debt.

You can blister your bands at an oar, or bale out the boat, just as your taste inclines.

When the man could speak, he reviled her, in his rasping whisper, with curses that it seemed must blister his tongue.

The heat was oppressive; drops of perspiration rolled from the forehead of the sheriff, and at times, when he attempted to steady his uncertain limbs, his hands shrank from the heated, blistering bark he touched with ungloved palms.

The physicians were sent for, came, wondered, speculated, administered medicine, blistered the calves of the legs, and cupped the back of the neck, but to no purpose.

In summer the sky travails with thunderings and the flare of sheet lightnings to win a few blistering big drops, and once in a lifetime the chance of a torrent.

Ubiquitary flies that have of late so blistered the ears of all men, that they cannot endure the solid truth.

The Cathedral was to Gabriel like a gigantic tumour, which blistered the Spanish epidermis, like scars of its ancient infirmities.