1 The blinds of Mrs. Peniston's drawing-room were drawn down against the oppressive June sun, and in the sultry twilight the faces of her assembled relatives took on a fitting shadow of bereavement.
2 It was a cloudy, sultry afternoon; the seamen were lazily lounging about the decks, or vacantly gazing over into the lead-coloured waters.
3 The next day was exceedingly still and sultry, and with nothing special to engage them, the Pequod's crew could hardly resist the spell of sleep induced by such a vacant sea.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale. 4 After a while one got restless under it, as one does under the heat of a soft, sultry summer day.
5 The weather was warm and sultry and put us both in a holiday humour.
6 The sultry nightmare was in the past.
7 It was a sultry, close day, the next day, as the steamer drew near to New Orleans.
8 The heats of summer had driven all who were able to leave the sultry and unhealthy city, to seek the shores of the lake, and its cool sea-breezes.
9 The weather had been somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of August.
10 The wind fell away entirely during the evening, and at midnight there was a dead calm, a sultry heat, and that prevailing intensity which, on the approach of thunder, affects persons of a sensitive nature.
11 The day had grown sultry, and in the windows of the grocers' shops musty biscuits lay bleaching.
12 It was a close, sultry day: devoid of sunshine, but with a sky too dappled and hazy to threaten rain: and our place of meeting had been fixed at the guide-stone, by the cross-roads.
13 It was a fine night: not moonlight, but sultry and fragrant.
14 There was about an hour still to lunch-time; the dewy morning had already given place to a sultry day.