He was a remarkable swimmer, and it is stated that he once swam six miles in the James River, against a strong tide in a hot sun, and then walked back without seeming in the least tired.

Thus, mile after mile went by; and early in the afternoon I reached Hightstown, very hot and hungry, and a little footsore.

The hot afternoon was drawing to a close, and I was wearily looking out for Spotswood, when a little incident occurred, the memory of which has ever since been as refreshing to me as the act in itself was at the time.

He was hot-blooded, impulsive, high-spirited, and generous, his very faults serving as a foil to his noble qualities; ever erring and repenting, offending and atoning for his offences.

A long month in the terrible cold, on the summits of the Balkan range; the forced retreat through the snow after the battle of Taskosen; the neck-and-neck race with the Russians down the valley of the Maritza; finally, the hot little battle on the river-bank, and the two days of hand-to-hand struggle in the vine-yard of Stanimakathis was a campaign to break the constitution of any soldier.

The only utterance, however, forced from him by the sublime thoughts that permeated his soul, was the emission of a white rolling volume of fragrant smoke, accompanied by two words: "Doocéd hot!" Salsbury did not reply.

Then we lay panting and laughing after our exertions on the hot yellow sand, sheltered from the wind, and in the full blaze of a scorching sun, a cloudless blue sky above, and an immense army of dancing, shouting willow bushes, closing in from all sides, shining with spray and clapping their thousand little hands as though to applaud the success of our efforts.

It must have been the wind, I reflectedthe wind bearing upon the loose, hot sand, driving the dry particles smartly against the taut canvasthe wind dropping heavily upon our fragile roof.

The sun was blazing hot; not a cloud showed itself anywhere; the wind, however, had not abated one little jot.

And, as mistakes arose, or discords fell, 330 Or bold seducers taught them to rebel, As charity grew cold, or faction hot, Or long neglect their lessons had forgot, For all their wants they wisely did provide, And preaching by epistles was supplied: So great physicians cannot all attend,

At this season, the winds blow so very hot from off the land, that I can compare them to nothing but the heat proceeding from the mouth of an oven.

Richard Ligon, in his history of Barbadoes, where he resided from the year 1647 to 1650, about 24 years after his first settlement, writes, "that there were then fifty thousand souls on that island, besides Negroes; and that though the weather was very hot, yet not so scalding but that servants, both christians and slaves, laboured ten hours a day."

Such her devotion was, as might give rules Of speculation to disputing schools, And teach us equally the scales to hold Betwixt the two extremes of hot and cold; That pious heat may moderately prevail, 110 And we be warm'd, but not be scorch'd with zeal: Business might shorten, not disturb, her prayer; Heaven had the best, if not the greater share.

Then cold, and hot, and moist, and dry, In order to their stations leap, And Music's power obey.

Oh, now it begins, and the gun-room grows hot, Ply it with culverin and with small shot; Hark, does it not thunder?

You only hear it thunder from afar, And sit in peace the arbiter of war: Peace, the loathed manna, which hot brains despise.

A French troop first swept all things in its way; But those hot Monsieurs were too quick to stay:

The very heroes show their authors; Achilles is hot, impatient, revengefulimpiger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer, &c.: Æneas patient, considerate, careful of his people, and merciful to his enemies; ever submissive to the will of Heavenquò fata trahunt, retrahuntque, sequamur.

I will bring in hot water to bathe it.

I will bring the hot water to your chamber.

"It is so hot inside," the girl said, her voice so low that it seemed part of the night, "and out here it is so cool andand wonderful."

Sitting thus, I would go hot of a flash and then cold just as sudden.

He hesitated where the hot-smelling loaves were being tossed into a cart, and then very quietly knelt down and commenced robbery.

Then for a moment his son's face glowed out in a hot insurgence of the fire, his son's face looking up to him, tender as well as strong; and at that he found a voice to reach them all, speaking across a gulf, as it were, to his son.

I was so hot at the driver's sassthe cussed low-downness of doing a feller a favour and then heaving it at himthat you could have lit a match on me anywheres, but to save me I couldn't help laughingAg had the comicallest way!