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Updated: June 14, 2025
Dry, burnt-up desert tracts, scantily clothed with thistles and shrubs, moving dunes of fine yellow sand, low hill ridges disintegrated by alternate heat and cold such is the country where a few nomads wander about with their flocks, and the stranger often wonders how the animals find a living.
I would give my life to save her any suffering her hand on my forehead would be dearer and sweeter than the cool spring in the hills after a weary, day-long hunt, when I come to it with hot cheeks and burnt-up throat! Oh, yes!
In another he was riding alone in a gorge aflame with rhododendrons, and far down in the plain the burnt-up Indian plain some great fortified town, grave on its hill-top, broke the level lines "A rose-red city, half as old as time."
D'recollect what you said to me when I invited you to cast your glims over this very country, a burnt-up old prairie that day, so scorched it was too dry and hot to cut up into town lots for an addition to Hades?" Asher laughed now. "No, I don't remember anything about that. It was just the general line of events that stayed with me," he said.
Joan demanded anxiously, springing to her feet and shaking out her drenched skirt. "Do? Why, look yonder. Ther' across the water. Ther' wher' them burnt-up woods break. See that patch o' grass on the sky-line? Look close, an' you'll see two somethings standin' right ther'. Wal, we got to git near enough that way so Cæsar can hear my whistle." "Cæsar? Is is that Cæsar? Why how ?"
My dreams were haunted for a time by the burnt-up mountain-chain of Galaad and the peak of Safed, where the Messiah was to appear, by Carmel and its beds of anemone sown by God, by the Gulf of Aphaca whence issues the river Adonis. Strangely enough, it was at Athens, in 1865, that I first felt a strong backward impulse, the effect being that of a fresh and bracing breeze coming from afar.
The chart room of the Gaston de Paris was a pleasant change from the dark and damp of the bridge. A couch upholstered in red velvet ran along one side of it and on the couch with one leg up and a pipe in his mouth the captain was resting himself, a big man of the Southern French navy type, with a beard of burnt-up black that reached nearly to his eyes.
Five years after the war Robert Somers, an English traveler, said of the Tennessee Valley: "It consists for the most part of plantations in a state of semi-ruin and plantations of which the ruin is for the present total and complete.... The trail of war is visible throughout the valley in burnt-up gin-houses, ruined bridges, mills, and factories... and in large tracts of once cultivated land stripped of every vestige of fencing.
Without taking any heed, his eyes followed the cricket ball, which was in turn slogged into the horse-pond and cottage gardens. Through long familiarity, the green had faded from his notice, nor did the burnt-up crops on the Downs attract his thoughts, nor yet the sinuous lines of the hills. From the platform one saw the whole of Southwick. The green with its cricket match, Mrs.
'Well, I think he'll do, said our friend to himself, as having reached his bedroom, in accordance with modern fashion, he applied a cedar match to the now somewhat better burnt-up fire, for the purpose of lighting a cigar a cigar! in the state-bedroom of Jawleyford Court.
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