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Updated: May 12, 2025
After a short silence she asked in a conventional tone: "I suppose you are glad to get away from Chicago. The last papers we received say that the East is sweltering in one of those smothery heat waves." "It's the humidity and close air that kills," said Blake. "I ought to know. I lived for years in the slums." "Oh, you you really speak of it openly!" the girl exclaimed.
I should be given short shrift once my name was known. The day passed, warm and lovely in the woods and on the water, hideous and sweltering in the stench of the camp. I saw captives die of heat and flies, but I could do nothing. My men took cue from me, and we all laughed and chaffered. I even took a turn at spear throwing, but was too discreet to win.
Another anxiety possesses him too. It may very well be that on arrival at Savanilla he has to wait days in that sweltering atmosphere for the Royal Mail steamer. And when it comes in, his troubles do not cease, for the stowage of the precious cargo is vastly important. On deck it will almost certainly be injured by salt water. In the hold it will ferment.
His jaws gritted tight. His eyes shone with a fervent resolution. "It goes, little gal," he cried. "It's our lives for his. It sure goes every time." The camp was sweltering under an abnormal heat. There was not one breath of the usual invigorating mountain air.
Not only the warning of possible death in a holocaust of fire, but the omen of poor hunting and trapping in the winter to come. Miki and Neewa were in a swamp country when the fifth of August came. In the lowland it was sweltering.
The majority of them were heavy-set, muscular fellows, and the July night being one of sweltering heat, they were clad in the least possible raiment. The water-people of any race are rough and turbulent, and it struck Alf that to be out at midnight on a pier-end with such a crowd of wharfmen, in a big Japanese city, was not as safe as it might be.
The way in which American wives leave their husbands toiling in the sweltering city while they themselves fleet the time in Europe would alone give me pause. But I am here concerned with the relative and not the absolute; and my contention is that the average marriage in America is apt to be made under conditions which, compared with those of other nations, increase the chances of happiness.
If you, a foot-sore, homeward-bound pedestrian, on a sweltering July day, were to see your next-door neighbour driving in the same direction in solitary state, would you have a right to stop his carriage and force yourself in? Nay, even though you had just before fallen down and broken your leg, would the compassionating by-standers be justified in forcing him to take you in?
They had great ado to read the letter, and there was much putting of heads together over it; but the messenger knew the purport, and the boy made up his mind to go, for he felt, he had said to himself, like one of the silly and lazy carp sweltering in the castle moat; so he dressed himself in his best and went.
Many and various were the comments which arose as the party gazed intently upon the distant smoke columns. "If only as a change from knocking on the head these defenceless devils, it's quite a blessed relief to have some real fighting," quoth Holmes. "You'll get plenty of that, Holmes, within the next few hours," remarked Hazon dryly. It was near midday, and the heat was torrid and sweltering.
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