Scorched

Examples

• I'm being scorched in the legs, which indeed is testified to the noses of all present by the smell of his worsted stockings. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Insurmountable heaps sometimes opposed themselves; the still burning fires scorched me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:--Day its fervid fires had wasted, and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Perhaps they scorched and grilled it, but they could not have done much more, because they had no cooking implements. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The earth is scorched with fire; the sea becomes as the blood of a dead man; the islands flee away; the mountains are not found. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He took it from my hand, held it up, and surveyed the bed, all blackened and scorched, the sheets drenched, the carpet round swimming in water. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was a dreadful hour--an hour from which she emerged shrinking and seared, as though her lids had been scorched by its actual glare. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The soles which you are at this moment presenting to me are slightly scorched. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• No, scorched, not burnt--he lay on his face, I tell you. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The very dust was scorched brown, and something quivered in the atmosphere as if the air itself were panting. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Of course they did; for I felt their eyes directed like burning-glasses against my scorched skin. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• They crossed the bare scorched terrace all three together, and disappeared through a staring white archway. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

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