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It seemed to burn and sear its way into her soul. How was it that a stranger had the power to scorch her with anguish this way? And she him? He turned, still with that desperate, half-frantic look in his face, and accosted two men who stood at the other end of the platform.
Oh! if not for my sake, at least for your own, reconsider before the hot irons sear your brow; and hide it here, my love; keep it white and pure and unfurrowed here, in the arms that will never weary of sheltering and clasping you close and safe from the burning brand of fame. Literati! A bondage worse than Roman slavery!
He had been a real buck in his day among those of his own class, and though the storm of his romances had become but a faint stirring of leaves which had tinges of days that are sear, he still had an eye unmatched for female beauty. The sun which makes that northern land a paradise in summer caught the gold- brown hair of Gabriel Druse's daughter, and made it glint and shine.
"Very like him," Charlotte answered, and as the baby nestled up to her again, she dropped her cheek against it and tears came into her eyes scalding tears that seemed to sear their way up from the depths of her heart. Suddenly the other wife leaned forward, eagerly suspicious. "You have no other children older?" she asked. Charlotte looked round blankly, her eyes still wet.
"Smallpox, fiddlesticks I said disgrace, Sallie Carruthers, and the worst kind of disgrace municipal disgrace." And as Aunt Augusta named the plague that was to come upon us, she looked as if she expected it to wilt us all into sear and dried leaves. And in point of fact, we all did rustle.
Frank's eyelids flickered and directly he opened his eyes. "How do you feel, old man?" asked Jack. Frank struggled free from his chum's grip and sat up. He shook his head once or twice and then rose to his feet. "I'll be all right in Look out!" he broke off suddenly. He dodged. But Jack, not realizing the import of Frank's words, remained still. He felt something hot sear the lobe of his ear.
The July storms came, and the forest floor that had been so sear and brown and dry and dusty changed as if by magic. The green grass shot up, the flowers bloomed, and along the canyon beds of lacy ferns swayed in the wind and bent their graceful tips over the amber-colored water.
"Why, I guessed as much, if he seared you at all; but where did he sear you? Come now," coaxingly, "tell the court where and how he applied the actual cautery." Job being thus driven to his wit's end, turned and stood at bay. "Now I will tell you, your honour, if you will but sit down for a moment, and answer me one question." "To be sure; why, Job, you brighten on us.
I could hear Mat and Beverly splashing about safe and joyous somewhere, and I forgot my fever and pain and the dread of that awful glare coming again to sear my burning eyeballs as I watched and listened. A louder shriek as the little child ran behind Eloise and gave her a vigorous shove for one so small.
The exasperating raging bitterness of this, the grudging envy with which he looks at those more fortunate than himself, whose intellectual equipment he despises, these are the things which sear the heart. I had resolved let come what might come that I would never go home to confess myself a failure.
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