1 A hot sun had blazed upon this spot.
2 The flames bit him, and the hot smoke broiled his skin.
3 After a time the hot, dangerous flashes of the rifles were visible.
4 He came from hot plowshares to prospects of clover tranquilly, and it was as if hot plowshares were not.
5 The steel ramrods clanked and clanged with incessant din as the men pounded them furiously into the hot rifle barrels.
6 They slowly retreated, with their faces still toward the spluttering woods, and their hot rifles still replying to the din.
7 As the regiment lay heaving from its hot exertions the officer who had named them as mule drivers came galloping along the line.
8 Presently he began to feel the effects of the war atmosphere--a blistering sweat, a sensation that his eyeballs were about to crack like hot stones.
9 Well," said he profoundly, "I've thought it might get too hot for Jim Conklin in some of them scrimmages, and if a whole lot of boys started and run, why, I s'pose I'd start and run.
10 His rifle barrel grew so hot that ordinarily he could not have borne it upon his palms; but he kept on stuffing cartridges into it, and pounding them with his clanking, bending ramrod.