Sultry

Examples

• The evening was still and warm; close and sultry it even promised to become. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• IV The heat had been painfully oppressive all day, and it was now a close and sultry night. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Though stoical, I was not quite a stoic; drops streamed fast on my hands, on my desk: I wept one sultry shower, heavy and brief. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It was a fine night: not moonlight, but sultry and fragrant. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The sultry air impregnated with dust, the heat and smoke of burning palaces, palsied my limbs. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• When she got there, she found Bessy lying on the settle, moved close to the fire, though the day was sultry and oppressive. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It is a still, sultry, moonless night. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The air in sultry weather, though not cloudy, has a kind of haziness in it, which makes objects at a distance appear dull and indistinct. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The second day was sultry and oppressive. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And then he left the hot reeking room in the borough court, and went out into the fresher, but still sultry street. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It seemed as though the prison's poverty, and shabbiness, and dirt, were growing in the sultry atmosphere. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The night was so very sultry, that although they sat with doors and windows open, they were overpowered by heat. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It was a sultry night, and this was a fine-weather arrangement when the day's work was done. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Yesterday was so sultry every one felt ill. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Above, the sky was almost of a purple color in the sultry night, and the stars, brilliant and large, burned like lamps in the still air. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

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