1 Then she could have scorched him with hot words.
2 Her tongue was furred and her throat parched as if flames had scorched it and no amount of water could assuage her thirst.
3 There towered the twelve oaks, as they had stood since Indian days, but with their leaves brown from fire and the branches burned and scorched.
4 Scarlett's legs felt cold to the knees but rage scorched her face.
5 Her fingers tightened about his thumb as she perceived the hot low room, the pounding of pressing-irons, the reek of scorched cloth, and Erik among giggling gnomes.
6 Here lounged the watch, when not otherwise employed, looking into the red heat of the fire, till their eyes felt scorched in their heads.
7 Through thee, thy flaming self, my scorched eyes do dimly see it.
8 Edna said she did not mind a little scorched taste.
9 When the blows scorched the back of the Huron, he would know where to find a woman to feel the smart.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11 10 The youth had reached an anguish where the sobs scorched him.
11 The boiled tea was very bitter, the omelet scorched, and the biscuits speckled with saleratus, but Mrs. March received her repast with thanks and laughed heartily over it after Jo was gone.
12 Of course they did; for I felt their eyes directed like burning-glasses against my scorched skin.
13 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.
14 I passed my finger over his eyebrows, and remarked that they were scorched, and that I would apply something which would make them grow as broad and black as ever.
15 On my objecting to this retreat, he took us into another room with a dinner-table for thirty, and in the grate a scorched leaf of a copy-book under a bushel of coal-dust.