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Updated: June 6, 2025
The simplest way of feeling heat-waves is to hold a warm iron near your face. You know that no light comes from it, yet you can feel the heat-waves beating violently against your face and scorching it. Now there are many of these dark heat- rays in a sunbeam, and it is they which do most of the work in the world.
They worked from dawn till sunset with all their strength, fastening their belts tight round their bodies to stifle the pangs of hunger. The summer passed in heat-waves, thunder and lightning. The forest gabbled in the storms at night. Towards autumn it began to rustle, leafless, beneath the showers of rain.
The light-waves cannot pass through the kettle, but the heat-waves can, and as they enter the water inside they agitate it violently. Quicker, and still more quickly, the particles of water near the bottom of the kettle move to and fro and are shaken apart; and as they become light they rise through the colder water letting another layer come down to be heated in its turn.
The day was soundless and windless, and the heat-waves rose from the desert like smoke.
The man's face and neck were of a purplish, apoplectic hue; he seemed to radiate heat-waves like a base-burner. "Is this Mr. Weeks?" Kirk inquired. "That's me." "My name is Anthony." "Glad to meet you," wheezed the fat man, extending a limp, moist hand without rising. When Kirk had grasped it he felt like wiping his own palm. "Have a seat."
Then he lifted his eyes, gazing off absently toward the distant skyline, the mellow haze in the hills, the shimmering of heat-waves above the dunes, the glistening reflections of light off myriads of tiny sand cubes. Glover poor Glover had paid the price, and had paid it in silence. He wheeled his horse and sped after Johnson. He overtook him swinging up over a slight elevation.
But, as the train pulled out of the station, and Wilbur looked over the sage-brush and sparse grass, seeming to dance under the shimmering heat-waves of the afternoon sun, he suddenly became conscious that the world seemed very large and that everything he knew was very far away.
You remember that sunlight also helps the plants to sift the air, so that they take from it the part that suits them, and leave behind the part that suits us that precious oxygen which is so necessary for all animal life. Then we must not forget the work done by the heat-waves. These are called "dark," because they cannot be seen.
Carrying the weight of a boy was nothing to the horse, and before half an hour had passed, the ford and trail came in view of the anxious courier. Halting in order to survey the horizon, the haze and heat-waves of summer so obstructed his view that every object looked blurred and indistinct. Even the dust cloud was missing; and pushing on a mile farther, he reined in again.
Breathe upon your hand, and feel how hot your breath is; well, that heat which you feel, was once in a sunbeam, and has travelled from it through the food you have eaten, and has now been at work keeping up the heat of your body. But there is still another way in which these plants may give out the heat-waves they have imprisoned.
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