Hottest
[hɒtɪst] or [hɑtɪst]
Examples
- A narrow valley in California, called Death Valley, between the Panamint and Funeral Mountains, is considered the dryest and hottest place in the United States. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The name was applied by the ancients to a period of about forty days, the hottest season of the year, at the time of the rising of Sirius, the dog-star. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I believe, if some of you were thrown into Nebuchadnezzar's hottest furnace you would issue forth untraversed by the smell of fire. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There was a trembling all through her, as in live coal when its vivid vermilion is hottest. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The hottest suns of India never heated his temper; and the Walcheren ague never shook it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- For a few minutes I experienced some of the hottest fighting I had ever passed through. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- What is the Hottest Place in the United States? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And the end of it is, father, what I told you all along, cries Penelope, finishing me off with a last scarification, the hottest of all. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It is the hottest long vacation known for many years. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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