heat-pulsing

Updated: July 13, 2026

Here and there he had noticed a rattler lurking in the shade of a rock or partly concealed under the thorny blade of a sprawling cactus; and he had seen a sage hen nestling in the hot sand. But these were fixtures as was also the Mexican eagle that winged its slow way in mile-wide circles in the glaring, heat-pulsing sky. The rider again halted the black horse.

Charles Alden Seltzer - 'Drag' Harlan