Taking the precaution of keeping the stove open this time, the air was again exhausted at the farther end of the pipe, and in a little time the flame was seen to ascend even to the air-pump, and to scorch the parts made of wood; whereupon I saw a glow of triumph on his face, which amply compensated him for his wound and vexation.

The lightnings tremble in the clouds to scorch you up and send your black soul to its own place.

Hugh Branning found the town quite uncomfortable; the eyes of all the people he met seemed to scorch him.

Then her arm was put round him, and she drew him close against her side, and at that momentO how terrible it was!the black cloud and the whole universe was lit up with a sudden flash that seemed to blind and scorch him, and the hill and the world was shaken and seemed to be shattered by an awful thunder crash.

Not one in that crowd knows the first thing about camp cookery, and they scorch everything they try," said Bluff, sighing.

I see I am not mortall, For I with patience have thus long endur'd Beyond the strength of all mortality; But now the thrice heate furnace of my bosome Disdaineth bounds: doe not I scorch you all? Goe, goe, you are all but prating Mountebankes, Quack-salvers and Imposures; get you all from me.

For simooms that scorch you and tempests that freeze; for sand-heaps and sand-hillocks and sand-roads; for men digging sand, for women shaking off sand, for minute boys crawling in sand; for sand in the church-slips and the gingerbread-windows, for sand in your eyes, your nose, your mouth, down your neck?

And I thought I felt drops of scalding water [could they be tears?] trickle down upon my cheeks; while my cheeks, glowing like fire, seemed to scorch up the unwelcome strangers.

You turn the good that is brought you, into poison, and scorch yourselves with the very light that shines on you.

"Yes, fire, that I may scorch you, kindle you, madden you, to do my work, and wear the heart of fire which I wear day and night!" Stangrave looked at her startled.

We had again resumed the Oriental costume, but in spite of an ample turban, my face soon began to scorch in the dry heat.

The sun had burned away every cloud that had hung rosy about his rising, and the great gray flanks of Washington glared in a pale scorch close up under the sky, whose blue fainted in the flooding presence of the full white light of such unblunted day.

The hot rage Of love shall scorch his heart in tortures fell, Till Winter comes with many an icicle.

A rifle snapped almost in Ken's faceso close that he felt the scorch of the powder.

To wear clothing was intolerable, but to cast it aside was to scorch by day, and expose an ampler area to the mosquitoes by night; to go on deck by day was to be blinded by glare and to stay below was to suffocate.

Or scorch with seering flames, Æra's nature flows in tepid streams, And life's meanders glide.

A great, brown scorch marked the breast of her night-dress and at its center was a small stain of blood.

It shines and dazzles like the noonday sun, but, like that, too, is very apt to scorch, and therefore is always feared.

Spread thinly on plates and put into an oven hot enough to scald, not scorch it.

Be careful that it does not scorch.

Care must be taken also not to scorch the slices, as once scorched, it is spoiled.

It doesn't harm if the leaves scorch.

The amiable creature beguiled the watches of the night by brewing jorums of a fearful beverage which he called coffee, and insisted on sharing with me; coming in with a great bowl of something like mud soup, scalding hot, guiltless of cream, rich in an all-pervading flavor of molasses, scorch, and tin pot.

And gradually he increased their power, checking the heat rays that would slip through and threatened to scorch the patient's skin, by cunning devices of cooling streams trickling through the tubes and the hollow lenses.

Moths begging the candle to scorch them!