His scanty clothes seemed singed and burned into rags; his hair, which hung about his face unkempt and uncared for, had the same singed aspect; his skin was brown and baked.

His scanty clothes seemed singed and burned into rags; his hair, which hung about his face unkempt and uncared for, had the same singed aspect; his skin was brown and baked.

He struggled up from the ground, clearing his hot eyes from the ashes that were in them, and putting aside his singed hair.

SINGED SHEEP'S HEAD.The village of Dudingston, which stands "within a mile of Edinburgh town," was formerly celebrated for this ancient and homely Scottish dish.

In the summer months, many opulent citizens used to resort to this place to solace themselves over singed sheep's heads, boiled or baked.

When meant for bacon, the hair is singed instead of being scalded off.

After having emptied and singed the duck, season it inside with pepper and salt, and truss it.

After it has been singed and trussed, the same as in the preceding recipe, put into the body a seasoning of pepper and salt, and the butter to moisten it inside.

My shoes were sadly burnt, my stockings singed and my feet scorched; my friend was less fortunate, for he tumbled down with his hands on a vein of red hot cinders and burned them terribly.

We then walked to the hermitage in about an hour and a quarter, and arrived there with no other accident than having our shoes and stockings totally spoiled, our feet a little singed, the hands of Mr. R.D. severely burned and both begrimed with ashes like blacksmiths.

Also pieces of beef hide were cut into strips, singed, scraped, boiled to the consistency of glue, and swallowed with an effort; for no degree of hunger could make the saltless, sticky substance palatable.

It seemed very little hurt, though the vegetation that had apparently choked the great open space was singed to a black fluff, among which lay thousands of calcined bones of man, horse, ass, and camel, for all was distinct in the bright, yet so pensive and forlorn, moonlight, which was that Eastern moonlight of pure astral mystery which illumines Persepolis, and Babylon, and ruined cities of the old Anakim.

There was an outer wall, but the foliage over it had been singed away, and the gate all charred.

Not one of all the hairs of her golden head was singed by the lightning that shivered the tree under which the child had run for shelter from the flashing sky.

I examined the feet and legs of Raiere and the two girls I had come with, and even the delicate hairs of their calves had not been singed by their fiery promenade.

Boat an' cargothree thousand seven hundred" "They'll be that singed and washed in the sands off Au Fer that nobody'll know what they died of!"

You can see, too, that ever since, the rabbits have a burnt place on their backs, where the one that got away was singed.

30 Of wine she never tasted through the year, But white and black was all her homely cheer: Brown bread, and milk (but first she skimm'd her bowls), And rashers of singed bacon on the coals; On holy days, an egg or two at most; But her ambition never reach'd to roast.

He was present in 1596 at the brilliant action in which the Earl of Essex "singed the Spanish king's beard," in the harbor of Cadiz.

Nautica had eyebrows and hair singed, though she found that out only when she got the flour off.

There was, however, a queer smell of singed hair.

As he did so the singed body loosened its grip upon the machine and fell forward on its face.

We noted, however, that the window-sill on which we had stepped in getting out of the house was slightly singed, and that the impressions of our feet on the gravel of the path were unusually deep.

The pavement was hot under one's feet; and if you did not proceed with caution, the fire singed your hair.

"There you go, red as a turkey-cock and madder than a singed tree-cat!