too-hot

Updated: May 25, 2025

The two aides found Loring himself, middle-aged and imposing, old Indian fighter, hero of Contreras, Churubusco, Chapultepec, and Garita de Belen, commander, since the transference of General Robert E. Lee to South Carolina, of the Army of the Kanawha, gallant and dashing, with an arm left in Mexico, with a gift for picturesque phrases, with a past full of variety and a future of a like composition, with a genuine tenderness and care for his men, and an entire conviction that both he and his troops were at present in the convoy of a madman they found Loring seated on a log beside a small fire and engaged in cooling in the snow a too-hot tin cup of coffee.

Mary Johnston - The Long Roll

His own "executive coarseness" is referable in part to the social standard of the day, when ladies as refined as the Miss Berrys "d d" the too-hot tea-kettle, and Canning referred to a political opponent as "the revered and ruptured Member."

George William Erskine Russell - Sydney Smith