Once a hand had him by the throat, and when Lefty jerked himself away it was with a feeling that his flesh had been seared by five points of red-hot iron.

At this thought a feeling of desperate regret shot through her like a red-hot blade, burning her cruelly to the very depths of her being.

Onistah built a fire of poplar, which presently crackled like a battle front and shot red-hot coals at them in an irregular fusillade.

"You gave me a bad ten minutes with that infernal red-hot horseshoe of yours.

"Would you sooner be driving red-hot knives into one another's hearts," said the giant, "or would you sooner be fighting one another on red-hot flags?"

From our position, and the observations I had made of the country on the eastern shores of Nickol Bay, I was satisfied that the breadth of stony ranges lying between us and our destination did not exceed eight or ten miles, which we therefore now determined to venture upon, although at great risk to the horses, some of which now walked upon stones as they would over red-hot coals.

In a situation calling for words of molten passion of a nature calculated to go through Madeline Bassett like a red-hot gimlet through half a pound of butter, he had said not a syllable that could bring a blush to the cheek of modesty, merely delivering a well-phrased but, in the circumstances, quite misplaced lecture on newts.

When they settle on the ground, the bull-frog greedily devours them; which seems to have given origin to a curious, though cruel, method of destroying these animals: if red-hot pieces of charcoal be thrown towards them in the dusk of the evening, they leap at them, and, hastily swallowing them, are burnt to death.

Then the cowards quickened their pace under a sky of red-hot iron, over a burning road, lashed by the knotty branch which was worn into shreds on their livid skins.

Nearly twenty centuries have passed, and torrents of blood have watered the red-hot chains, and still the fetters are not broken; nayit is our lot to have borne its burning heatit is our lot to grasp with iron hand the wheels of its crushing car.

Dante's enemy, Boniface, was now dead, and of course in Tartarus, in the red-hot tomb which the poet had prepared for him.]

On Sunday morning, the 2d of November, the city was thrown into a state of violent ebullitionlike a little red-hot tea-kettleby the circulation of a rumor that got wind about the hour the burghers were preparing to go to church.

too soon, every window was closed; the stove glowed red-hot; the tough-hided natives gathered round it, and, deluging it with expectorated showers of real Virginian juice, the hissing and stench became insufferable.

When nicotine vapor is passed through a red-hot tube, it yields essentially collidine, and, with this, some pyridine, picoline, lutidine, and gases such as hydrogen, marsh-gas, and ethylene.

And yet even then, in that despairing certainty of disaster, I was conscious of the beauty of life, the beauty of life's exceeding sorrow, and I hugged it to me, like a red-hot iron.

There is about one chance in a thousand that Callahan's crown-sheet won't get red-hot and crumple up on him in the last twenty miles.

Thus the sparks taken from a piece of ice are as capable of inflaming bodies as those from a piece of red-hot iron.

"Ay, ay, sir!" "Fetch a red-hot iron; luff, luff a littlea little more steadyso.

There is a red-hot retort or cylinder plunged in a furnace.

Strangulation, a blow of the waddy, or filling the ears with red-hot embers, were the favorite ways of killing their own babies.

At last a thought struck him and he drew the head of his hatchet off the handle and put it in the fire till it became red-hot; and meanwhile he kept the tiger quiet by throwing down pieces of meat.

This question burnt in his brain like a red-hot dagger, upsetting his reason, and driving him almost mad with anger and grief.

The stars shone out of the vault like "red-hot diamonds," and on the sight no vision, to the ear no sound.

The brawny smith, dissatisfied with the boy's curiosity, held a piece of red-hot iron suddenly under the youngster's nose, hoping to make him beat a hasty retreat.

All the Senior Fellows dropped it like a red-hot coal.