| 单词 | sultriness |
| 例句 | The Summer Session—a few dozen boys being force-fed education, a stopgap while most of the masters were away and most of the traditions stored against sultriness—the Summer Session was over. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The choir, 56 strong, fills the hall ecstatically with “Allelluia,” and later, in Act 2, the sultriness of Shrader’s tenor is a match for the lilting “Ballad of Eldorado.” Review | Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan in ‘Candide’? I had to go to Philadelphia to catch this. 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z The funky divas have gone through more changes than we dare try to count, but the ladies haven’t lost any of their signature sultriness. Five things we learned from the Bowl's black movie music salute 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z In her prime she was a voluptuous brunette within shouting distance of Elizabeth Taylor's raven splendor and Sophia Loren's statuesque sultriness. Isabel Sarli: A Sex Bomb at Lincoln Center 2010-08-07T07:20:00Z And Ms. Lambert, a beguiling mixture of innocence and worldly wisdom, imbued her solo with a lingering sultriness that drew us, quietly and intensely, into her world. Dance Review: School of American Ballet, at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-06-07T21:21:09Z Her sultriness, in their view, was the essence of her success. Catching Up With: Pat Benatar?s Memoir Takes a Shot at the Bullies 2010-06-18T21:11:00Z "The Company You Keep" is adapted from a Korean format, but moves with the sultriness of Steven Soderbergh's "Out of Sight." How "The Company You Keep" maps the anatomy of a dangerous, network-friendly sexual thrill 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Beyond her prodigious vocal skills, Ms. Bumbry brought a famous sultriness to her roles, a reputation she put to good use for a 1970 performance of “Salome” at the Royal Opera House in London. Grace Bumbry, Barrier-Shattering Opera Diva, Is Dead at 86 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Rap-R&B collaborations have been plentiful for almost two decades, but typically it’s a female singer called in to add sultriness to an aggressive song. Critic?s Notebook: Bruno Mars in Ascension 2010-10-05T22:58:00Z “AGENCY” milks the sultriness of amplified strings — here the American Contemporary Music Ensemble — against an electronic backdrop that is, as in “Haunt,” ominously droning and dark. Review: A Composer’s Redacted Music and Raucous Noise 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Maybe it doesn’t possess Savannah’s sultriness or the pedigree of Charleston, but the tea is just as sweet in the rolling hills of what the people around here call Middle Tennessee. A Small-Town Gem Near Nashville 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z In its sly sultriness and emotional intricacy, the movie weaves an atmosphere of unnerving mystery. ‘The Lost Daughter’ Review: The Parent Trap 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Based on a Mallarmé poem, the music opens with the unhurried ease of a summer day, with added sultriness on Thursday from the Philharmonic’s principal flutist, Robert Langevin. Review: A Conductor Makes His Philharmonic Debut, at Last 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Winehouse's disconcerting sultriness meant she was initially classified as a jazz vocalist. Amy Winehouse obituary 2011-07-23T19:08:11Z Calculated sultriness has never factored into her fashion equation, however. Patti Smith?s Eye for Fashion 2010-03-19T20:41:00Z He also captures the sultriness of Wind Gap in unconventional ways, evoking the conflicting sensations of grace and dread in every color-saturated daytime scene and cutting it into its evenings. Women’s anger is not to be ignored: Lessons from HBO’s “Sharp Objects” 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Wedged in it are nearly a dozen yellow sticky notes at various pages of sultriness. 'Fifty Shades' too steamy for some library shelves 2012-05-09T19:41:42Z There was none of the perfume and sultriness of so much music in the East, for there is nothing purer than the bright, clean sound of metal, cool and ringing and dissolving in the air. Celebrating A Gift From Bali: Delicious Confusion 2010-10-10T01:30:00Z Ms. Thomas seesawed between sultriness and ache in “It’s Raining” and “Ruler of My Heart.” The Night New Orleans Came to Brooklyn 2010-12-05T23:06:00Z The medley was then “intentionally faded out with wet wipes,” to give the feeling of morning-after makeup — “the sultriness when makeup is left over,” as McGrath puts it. | The Stained Look Comes to Lipstick 2013-08-16T13:00:25Z This show doesn’t run on that kind of sultriness even though Keegan, trim and radiantly healthy, fiddles alluringly with her garters and makes Maggie’s desire plain. Williams’s ‘Cat’ lands on its feet at Round House 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Take heart: We project that this month we may once again be spared the worst of Washington’s standard sultriness. After a tolerable June, D.C. may again avoid excessive heat in July 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z With measured sultriness, Thompson spearheads the tune-heavy drama moving Sylvie from the youthful buoyancy of a torrid liaison to the resolute attitude of a woman with her own professional aspirations. Review: 'Sylvie's Love': A Black romantic drama for the ages 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z So Angelina broke down sultriness like any other move — as if it were a jump or a turn — and practiced it with her other choreography in her living room at night. Inside the High-Drama World of Youth Competition Dance 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Harrison christened the outfit RichGirl and crafted records that recalled the harmonies of Destiny’s Child, TLC’s street edge and the sultriness of En Vogue. With 'Girl Disrupted,' Sevyn Streeter's been waiting 15 years for this moment 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z But BAM is devoting a whole series to Southern sultriness onscreen. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Deciphering it is fun; there’s a playful pop-chart sultriness, a hint of pride, and perhaps a sense that she would rather get the shoot over and done with. DJ Octo Octa on coming out as transgender: 'Everyone was confused, then it was OK' 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Her hair was swept to the side, and her dress was a compromise between her uptight Karen look and the sultriness of Natasha. Allison Jones, Nerd Hunter 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z “No sleep,” he wrote, “The sultriness pervades the air / And binds the brain.” Slavery Matters More Than Ever 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Augie and Margo kept the sultriness and the elegance and added a stunning dose of athleticism, integrating slides, turns and dizzying spins worthy of a figure skater. Augie Rodriguez, 86, Half of a Mambo Team, Dies 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z She conveyed sultriness and a hint of danger as a Bond girl, ending her short program with a pistol-pointing smile, then won the gold medal with an airy, ethereal free skate to music from Gershwin. Kim Yu-na Leads Figure Skating After Short Program 2014-02-19T20:19:02Z Embraced by a select few but not yet overexposed, Ocean Drive, the most celebrated street in South Beach, undulated with sultriness and whimsy. Versace Mansion, a South Beach Star, Faces Auction 2013-07-31T00:21:39Z “There’s a smoky, sexy sultriness to Mad Men,” says Brod, whose eponymous firm is known for its creative product placement. Mad Men's Mixed Blessing for Marketers 2012-05-30T18:07:14Z The sun of early August was tempered by a light breeze that removed any suspicion of sultriness. The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret 2012-03-07T03:00:15.897Z An oppressive sultriness in the atmosphere, such as we had never before experienced, and a drenching thunder-storm, put a complete stopper on our projected excursion to make a closer acquaintance with the hills. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z The October sky, blue and sunny, with an Indian summer sultriness, seemed an exact image of her life, with its aftermath of a happiness that had once seemed blighted. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Owing to the unusual sultriness few cared to tramp over the hills, or along the lower road of the valley. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z The changes from cold to hot became more sudden, the squalls which preceded them heavier, the stillness and sultriness which followed them more dangerous. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:20.960Z The awful sultriness penetrated everywhere, and brooded over the streets and dwellings, over field and meadow. Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life 2011-09-15T02:00:12.970Z By this he knew that the sun was sinking; the sultriness of noon too had much diminished, and there was more life stirring in the brush-wood and in the air than during the midday heat. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z The uniform, unvarying stream of hot air from a Russian stove vibrated around him with suffocating sultriness, increased by the fragrance of numberless flowers grouped in hot-house fashion in the lofty windows of stained glass. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z A light rain which, in the golden streaks, glittered like dusty pearls fell, settling the dust and dispelling the sultriness of the parched earth. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z It was June—but only just June—and the air, balmy and life-giving, knew no suspicion of sultriness. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z But the sultriness was the breath and atmosphere of her own spirit, and everything beautiful which met her became to her to-day a benumbing poison-flower. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z There was a sultriness in the air quite unfamiliar on the range. Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Schoolgirls Among Cowboys 2011-06-14T02:00:23.130Z The crash and the tremor were succeeded by a sultriness that was almost unbearable. The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z Spite of the chill autumn evening, there was an incomprehensible sultriness in the air of the room. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z I made a cut-off, and came upon the road half way up the hill, leaving sultriness for a breezy elevation. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z The extreme sultriness of the day had disturbed the electrical equilibrium of the atmosphere, resulting in a thunderstorm of unusual violence. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z It was early in August, and the floods of rain which had fallen in June and July had been followed by stifling sultriness. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z The sultriness of the August afternoon weighs upon the dusty vegetation of the late summer. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z The phenomenon of colour was due to the fact that, prompted by the sultriness of the day, Alexander had adopted in his garb a temporary variation of the Highland costume. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z An oppressive sultriness, the breathless, sticky sultriness of the old heat of the day, which remained hanging in the thicket, made breathing difficult. Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z A cool breeze had succeeded the sultriness of the mid-day hours; and, aroused from its torpor, all animated nature was once more active and joyous. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z The revolt of spring, the sultriness of summer, the fruitage of autumn, and the cool clearness of winter gently merge in it, the one into the other. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z Oppressive sultriness pervaded nature; through a gap in the broad bank of clouds the glow of the parting sun became visible once more. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z Few caravans ever traverse the deadly Adel plains without losing some slaves at least by the sultriness of the climate, or by the wanton spear of the adjacent hordes. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z He felt strangely thus alone with her in this sweet-perfumed, melancholy, intoxicating sultriness, alone with this happiness that was so near him, and which he was afraid of frightening away by an unseemly imprudence. Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z This night, and in one or two following it, the ashy sultriness overhead was hint of some latent storm. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z There prevailed at Odensburg the sultriness that portends the gathering storm. 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day 2011-02-09T03:00:49.283Z Evening had come, but the sultriness of the day still remained, in the west a great thunder cloud hung threateningly, and the harvest people hurried homewards. Herman A Novel 2011-02-03T03:00:12.287Z The mutual adulation of the first few days had given place to a period of sultriness, when cutting remarks flashed in the murky atmosphere like streaks of lightning. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z For owing to the long ride and great sultriness while the storm was gathering, I suddenly became intolerably thirsty, and felt that I should turn to tinder unless I could get a draught of wine. Barbarossa and Other Tales The sultriness, the gloom, the vague and monstrous shapes of the mountains, seemed to their imagination heavy with the mortal weight of Austria. The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico The air became oppressive in its sultriness, and the clouds gathered ominously. The Bachelors A Novel So close did the trees stand to the street that the summer wind could not get through them to lighten the pall of the night's sultriness. The Broken Gate A Novel Then with bent head she crept along the corridor into his room, where the imprisoned sultriness of the summer day suffocated her. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Isis goes to Byblos; she arrives there fatigued with sultriness, thirst, and the toilsome, stony road. Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity All these false scents were duly reported to headquarters through the local police-stations, with no other result than to increase the sultriness of the atmosphere at Scotland Yard. John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall There seemed a peculiar sultriness in the air that was unusual in the mountains. The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure The sultriness, the unnatural calm, are all storm warnings to the sailor, and if another proof were wanted, the barometer has been falling rapidly all day. By Right of Conquest A Novel The silence and sultriness of a July noon are supreme. The Battle of Gettysburg Perhaps it was due to the lateness of the hour and the feverishly high stakes of the night before, or perhaps it was only the sultriness of the morning. Thirty The midsummer day was hot and cloudless, yet just a puff of cool air every now and then, from the not very far distant Indian Ocean, redeemed it from downright sultriness. Harley Greenoak's Charge The sky was a vivid, unclouded blue, the sun, though hot, was not oppressive, and there was just sufficient stirring of the air to make against sultriness. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion The coffee brought him no comfort, and through the columns of the paper came the sultriness of Eden's eyes. Eden An Episode "In heat the landscape quivering lies, The cattle pant beneath the tree:" No little kindly breath of air comes to break the monotony of the dead sultriness that lies on everything. Portia or By Passions Rocked On the following morning there was unusual commotion in the fort, and, notwithstanding the great sultriness of the weather, both officers and men appeared in the full costume of the regiment from an early hour. Wau-nan-gee or the Massacre at Chicago A Romance of the American Revolution The night was dark,—no moon being visible,—and an oppressive sultriness was in the atmosphere. Through Apache Lands Miss Reed panted, and the sultriness made her loosen her jacket. Orientations She had a trace of Seminole blood, he decided—with the quiet sultriness that it leant to her face. Collectivum An hour passed, then another, and the morning which had been barely born when they first took the trail, wore on to the sultriness and vast, colored light of a tropical noon. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 He was panting a bit from the stairs, and his forehead was beaded with a moist tribute to the sultriness of the weather. The Monk of Hambleton He had been aware, even during his long absence in America, of sultriness brooding over him, and now, at these close quarters, he had begun to throw off his cloak of allegiance. Tante It was night, gentle and serene, such a night as in the favored clime of Andalusia is wont to succeed the sultriness of a summer's day. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. Everything between our young couple moved today, in spite of their pauses, their margin, to a quicker measure—the quickness and anxiety playing lightning-like in the sultriness. The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 Keen darts of light are shot from every leaf, And the whole landscape droops in sultriness. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 Around it the lush fields of clover were brilliant and cool in the expanse of brown sultriness. Louisiana Lou A Western Story The indulgence of the imagination is like the sultriness of a summer's day; what began so fair ends with sharp lightnings and thunder. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character The water was inviting, with the sultriness of the afternoon. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill Mid-day came, and brought with it the sultriness and cheerful brightness of a Norwegian summer's day. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition A light breeze ruffled the leaves and came with refreshing coolness after the sultriness of the day. In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls The weather was intensely hot; and whilst he was at his morning toilet the Chief Justice selected from his wardrobe the dress which was most suited to the sultriness of the air. A Book About Lawyers Moreover, as Silawayo explained, even when the weather was at its highest stage of sultriness elsewhere, in the mountains the changes were sudden and great. The Sign of the Spider It was warm, and miller Witham, uncomfortable at all times in summer sultriness, was doubly so in the hot, dusty atmosphere of the mill. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill It began at half-past eight o’clock, after a day of intense heat, which increased as the evening advanced, though it never reached the sultriness which was remarked before the storm of last week. The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" The day was warm, but overcast, and there was a threat of a thunderstorm in the sultriness of it. The Boy Scout Fire Fighters or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed The numbing sensation of the wound was giving place to hot, stabbing pain, while in spite of the sultriness of the air a cold sweat oozed from the young officer's forehead. Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force The sultriness of the night, which was oppressive even in the street, was almost stifling in the little room with its scant western exposure. Virginia A multitude of small, dark cloudlets, with indistinctly delineated edges, were creeping across the pale-blue sky; a fairly strong wind was whisking along in a dry, uninterrupted stream, without dispelling the sultriness. A Nobleman's Nest Mr Collins has succeeded in conveying the disagreeableness of the "windy day," and it is the more disagreeable for reminding us of Morland: luckily he has not succeeded in conveying the sultriness. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 It eased the sultriness of the night and brought rest to many who had been tossing on their beds, excited doubtless by the shows and dissipations of the last few hours. Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate Dusk, the dusk of the day on which Hugues had made history to be forgotten, was thickening fast, but the air was still warm with all the sultriness of noon. The Justice of the King The imagination of herself gliding away in that boat on the darkening waters was growing more and more into a longing, as the thought of a cool brook in sultriness becomes a painful thirst. Romola On Tuesday, the 31st of August, 1886, every one in Charleston, South Carolina, complained of the severe heat and sultriness of the air. Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas There was a sultriness in the air, even at that early period of the year, which to me seemed equal to that of Madras. Diary in America, Series One A week went by,—a week of weather that had all the sultriness of August. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 Not a breath of air was stirring; a dead, oppressive calm, like the sultriness of noonday, had settled down on land and water. Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters The famous Mr. Dudok de Wit, bobbing nearer, explained that he had unduly prolonged his daily swimming bath, owing to the sultriness of the day. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon The dog-days and the sultriness of August extended some of their influence even in our fresh kingdom by the sea. Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors I found sleep almost impossible from the sultriness of the air, and used to remain at the open window for the greater part of the night. Diary in America, Series One We expected a certain amount of sultriness, but not in such lavish prodigality as it was delivered. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country It is delightful to go up to Simla from the sultriness of India, and perhaps still more delightful to come down to Simla from the piercing cold of Tibet. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People The long, hot, white highway, dusty with a week's drought, carried back his thoughts so fully to old times that he walked on unconscious of the noontide heat and the sultriness of the road. Cobwebs and Cables One night, he related, after a day whose sultriness had been almost unendurable, a girl had stood at the door to her dugout, bidding her sweetheart good night. The Way of the Wind He was conscious, too, of a certain sultriness in it. The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis We were fast approaching the tropic of Cancer, and every day experienced a greater degree of sultriness; till at length, on the 25th, we crossed that imaginary boundary. The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 To the right and left rain falls in streaks, but without sultriness, and with no danger from violent wind-storms or cyclones. The Delight Makers The sister sat in the verandah and worked, or tried to work, for in the intense sultriness of that summer day work was next to impossible. The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural July was waning, and already an August sultriness was in the air. Contrary Mary As the day was uncommonly serene and mild, even to occasional sultriness, and as we were in excellent time for reaching Ratisbon that evening, we devoted an hour or two to rambling in this town. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three He took off his hat, baring his brow to the air, and drew long breaths, unpleasantly conscious of an increasing heaviness and sultriness in the air, according well with the oppression of his thoughts. The Black Pearl With the south-east aerial current comes heat and sultriness. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi This sultriness was a marked advantage to the lightly-dressed mountaineers as compared with the armor-clad knights, to whom the heat was very oppressive. Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) The Romance of Reality, German His face wore a startled and horrified expression and on his forehead stood great beads of sweat that the sultriness of the day did not account for. Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad The nights are almost always agreeably cool, and frequent showers and breezes allay the sultriness of the days. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy But as the summer grew he felt a moral sultriness, as it were, growing with it. The Ship of Stars Through Summer's parching sultriness, And Winter's freezing cold, From sapling youth To virile growth. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood She sang with a deep sultriness of voice as she walked away with the pan of potatoes. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative She closed the windows, despite the sultriness of the night, but the tune, having once got in, couldn't be shut out. The Real Adventure The speaker was a person who wore a garb peculiarly suitable to the autumnal sultriness of the weather. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892 How exquisite these pictures became to my mind as I thought them forth one by one, leaning over a grimy pavement in the peculiar sultriness of the year's first warmth! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Here was summer without sultriness, without gnats, mosquitoes, threatening thunderstorms, or anything to spoil it; it was summer as it might be in the Elysian fields, perfectly clear, and calm, and radiant. Christopher and Columbus He was the more susceptible from the depression caused by the hot sultriness of the night, and his separation from Julia. The End of the World A Love Story Summer—the balmy Indian summer, with its late spells of sultriness—had taken a weeping departure yesterday. Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods At San Juan a number of neophytes were at morning mass; the day had opened with intense sultriness and heaviness; the air was hot and seemed charged with electricity. The Old Franciscan Missions Of California He struggled with it for a time, but the warmth and sultriness of mid-day made it irresistible, and he at length stretched himself upon the herbage and fell asleep. Tales of a Traveller After a long night spent in cheerless, unprofitable thoughts which prevented him from sleeping, and seemed to intensify the darkness and sultriness of the night, Laevsky felt listless and shattered. The Duel and Other Stories And sultriness engenders thirst, But the best, the blue-black ink, Cannot be satisfactory Regarded as a drink. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 1, 1891 This slow travelling exhausted him, and the sultriness of the day had given him a headache. The Bishop and Other Stories A little cloud, a little sultriness in the air, is all that betrays the coming khemsin, that by and by shall overwhelm and destroy man and beast in its sandy darkness. Mr. Isaacs She could not take it with her right hand, which was fully engaged with the extremely heated sultriness of the ruined potato. The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories The heat during the summer months is indeed great, but its dryness renders it more endurable than the damp sultriness of an Atlantic August. International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 3, July 15, 1850 Here, at the river level, it was hot to the point of sultriness, the air heavy, even stagnant, since the Bar shut off the southerly breeze. Deadham Hard After a day of uncommon sultriness, a fresh breeze had sprung up, and a little before sundown the fair Toulousaines had deserted their darkened and artificially cooled rooms, and flocked to the promenade. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 For the heat of the past week had been piling itself up, like the heaped waters of flood and this afternoon was intense in its heat, its stillness and sultriness. The Blotting Book After such a revelation, let him smile with what sultriness he would, he could much sooner turn grapes purple, or pumpkins yellow, than melt the iron-branded impression out of the beholder's memory. House of the Seven Gables The fog of sultriness still hung over the city, but ahead lay a fresh world of ruffled waters, and distant promontories with light-houses in the sun. The Age of Innocence The path grew narrower and steeper, and the flower scents and the sultriness made it like walking in a hothouse. The Lost Prince The little flat was hot and stuffy under the August sun, and from the road beat up a malodorous sultriness. Of Human Bondage When Bertha reached the street again, the sky had become overcast, and the increasing sultriness foretold the approach of a thunderstorm. Bertha Garlan My youth flourished in the unwholesome sultriness of a blighted atmosphere, which I mistook for the resplendent brilliancy of a summer day. Vivian Grey The sultriness that precedes an emotional crisis weighed heavily upon him. The Story of Kennett An oppressive sultriness was in the air, sleepy buzzing drones were creeping about on the ground. Dame Care It seemed to her as if the summer was now past and that heavy sultriness was a last cramped sigh before the coming of the short days and the cold. The Path of Life Sharply aware of the sultriness of the evening he went hastily out to the veranda. The Happy End The drowsy sultriness of an American summer pervaded this secluded spot, harmonizing with the unceasing roar of the Great Falls. Birch Bark Legends of Niagara The quiet boy Grisha accompanied them, and looked with the blue reposefulness of his impassionate eyes into the blue flames of her rapturous ones, soothing the sultriness and passion of her agitation. The Created Legend The beauty of the summer nights at Florence amply compensates for the sultriness of the days,—especially if they be moonlight nights,—and the bright starlight of the Mediterranean is little less beautiful. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne It stood so now like a presence above the miserable, half-starved body that occupied the bench and suffered the sultriness of August and the pains of abstinence. Hidden Creek I attribute the oppression I felt to this fact and to the sultriness of the day, rather than to any exhalation from the sea itself. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain Why go back to the smoke and sultriness of town? Phantom Fortune, a Novel Towards evening, the sultriness increased to a great degree, and respiration became painful, from the closeness of the atmosphere. An Englishman's Travels in America His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States Mrs. Hunter had retired, overcome by the heat, and, believing that she could endure the sultriness better in the little parlor, Mara had turned down the gas, and was sitting by an open window. The Earth Trembled The anticipations raised by the extreme sultriness were fulfilled at first only in part. Nature's Serial Story The room began to darken, but they thought only of a shower that would banish the sultriness of the day. His Sombre Rivals There had been a shower in the night, and the air had a fine exhilarating quality, in contrast with the close sultriness of the previous afternoon. A Day of Fate Perhaps when her eyes closed the sultriness of the night had changed to the momentary freshness of the turning dawn, and the next hour or so was really cooler. In the Closed Room He considered snow in winter proper; sultriness in summer legitimate; frosts in the autumn the same, and rains in spring not objectionable. The Gilded Age, Part 4. The day bade fair to justify its proverbial character for sultriness. Nature's Serial Story All had become strangely still; not a soldier was in sight; even the birds were quiet in the sultriness of the early afternoon. Miss Lou The sultriness of the day had been succeeded by a cool and refreshing air. Hardscrabble; or, the fall of Chicago. a tale of Indian warfare "The deadly sultriness of these nights," she sighed. The Hidden Children In the morning there was sultriness in the air though the sky was clear; the thermometer stood at 52°, and at sunrise a smoky haze pervaded the whole sky. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, The flowing sap was not sweeter than the air, to which the brilliant sunlight imparted an exhilarating warmth far removed from sultriness. Nature's Serial Story A yellowish fog obscured the air, and there was a closeness and sultriness in the atmosphere that was strange for that wintry season. A Romance of Two Worlds Even the lights seemed to grow dim, and every one was oppressed as if by excessive sultriness. Old Fritz and the New Era In the lee of Waihee, between the white beach and the roof, no whisper of breeze eased the still sultriness. On the Makaloa Mat The sultriness of the day was deepening, and seemed to carry a threat with it. Painted Windows Summer reached its supreme culmination, and days that would not be amiss at the equator were often followed by nights of breathless sultriness. Nature's Serial Story Thus it comes that the wind blowing from the south brings heat and sultriness to the earth. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 The sun came out, increasing the sultriness of the day, while the dead calm still held. South Sea Tales A drowzy springlike sultriness pervaded the air, and the voices of ten thousand young frogs and insects, just awakened into life, rose in varied chorus from the creek and the meadows. The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life Growing tired at last, and exhausted by the excessive heat and sultriness of the day, we returned to our friend, the trader. The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life |
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