Parched

Examples

• There was a sense of blight in the air; the flowers were drooping in the garden, and the ground was parched and dewless. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I did not accompany them; I was exhausted: a film covered my eyes, and my skin was parched with the heat of fever. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• My lips were parched, my cheeks burned, and I was very sick. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Two tears, the parched tears of the old, rolled down her puffy cheeks and vanished in the abysses of her bosom. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• She saw death stealing across his features; she laid him on a bed, she held drink to his parched lips. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Dew on the parched earth! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Your lips are parched. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In the morning I went to the court; my lips and throat were parched. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• You have no wish for fruit; yet I see that your lips are parched. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Now followed a hot, parched, thirsty, restless night. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I don't know: he was as good to me as the well is to the parched wayfarer--as the sun to the shivering jailbird. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• What was life worth--what great faith was possible when the whole effect of one's actions could be withered up into such parched rubbish as that? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This morning I was glad of the draughthunger I had none, and with thirst I was parched. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Editor: Vince