previously-dew-sodden

Updated: June 8, 2025

Already the previously-dew-sodden ground was baked stone-hard, the radiating heat imparting an appearance of motion to every object within sight. Literally stewing, the subaltern threw himself flat on the ground under the slight shadow of a dried thorn bush, and waited, at intervals sweeping the bare outlines of the kopje with his prismatic glasses. Thirty long drawn-out minutes passed.

Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman - Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force