So marched this valiant rear-guard, parched with thirst, choked with dust, grim with blood and wounds, until, as the sun sank westwards, the woods thinned away and they beheld at last, glad-eyed and joyful, the walls and towers of fair Belsaye town.

The houses, which with few exceptions are built of bamboo and wood, become perfectly parched in the hot season, dried into so much touchwood by the heat of the sun.

I cannot tell you in adequate language just how the tropical sun punishes the unacclimated Northerner, especially if he be a foot-soldier tramping along in a blinding dust, parched of throat, empty of belly, and loaded down with a pack that would make a quartermaster's mule to fake the glanders.

My tongue became as parched as charcoal: had I been choking with ashes, my throat could not have been filled with more horrible thirst.

I feel parched to a mummy, and I shall be an object to behold!" Leslie sat upon her right hand.

Usually these were Leon Kantor's own people pouring up from the lowly lands of the East Side to the white lands of Broadway, parched for music, these burning brethren of hisold men in that line, frequently carrying their own little folding camp-chairs, not against weariness of the spirit but of the flesh; youth with Slavic eyes and cheek-bones.

It was parched like a sick man's, the skin like a dry husk.

Extending his conception, he will see the forests thickly expanding over more than six thousand square miles, and absolutely parched into tinder by the protracted heat of a long summer.

when I had asked for a drink of wine as my throat felt parched after that lengthy effort at oratory.

It was a river, and he must stand parched on the bank for ever and ever.

Several times she found certain treasures laid by for winter use by the squirrels or the digging peopleand perfectly preserved nuts and acorns, The latter, parched over coals, became one of the staples of their diet.