Wife preparing for a fight: 'Like a bowl of hot soup?'

Usage examples of warming.

For all her suspense, Ann could not help warming towards an accomplice who carried off an unnerving situation with such a flourish.

By its warming astringency, it exercises cordial properties which are most useful in arresting passive diarrhoea, and in relieving flatulent indigestion.

The pork shoulder and beef brisket had been on the fire since midnight and at mid-morning they were ready to go in the warming box after several dips in sauce.

Lo Manto stared at the boy for several seconds, the sun warming both their faces, their eyes shaded by the brims of baseball caps.

Peter endorsed her authority, but the warming of the weather brought a miscellanea of work for him also, and he seldom stayed within the walls of the keep.

He talked of Jacques Monier, and, stretching out his open hands over the coverlet, fancied he was warming them over the bivouac fire.

The room was fit for an old-fashioned American Robber Baron: the huge hearth big enough to roast a pig in, logs crackling and warming the room, a table stretching on and on in mahogany splendor with deep leather chairs set about it, the high ceiling inlaid with gold, the walls panelled with hand carved wood, the furniture seemingly from the days of Catherine the Great.

A pot of soup had been left warming at the edge of the hearth, and the wood had been replenished for the fire.

And here I may remark, that a mellowing rigorist is always a much pleasanter object to contemplate than a tightening liberal, as a cold day warming up to 32 Fahrenheit is much more agreeable than a warm one chilling down to the same temperature.

While it is but early days in this new reign, I find optimism warming my heart as I bid my screever set down my personal thoughts at this turn of the year.

He stood astride the hearthstones, warming his backside, leafing the manuscript pages, conscious of me drinking my sherry much too fast, shutting my eyes each time he let a page drop and flutter to the carpet.

A solution of tungstate acidulated with hydrochloric acid becomes intensely blue on the addition of stannous chloride and warming.

Trixie had picked up some weights and was warming up her triceps with two-pounders in each hand.

Nikki, an unaffiliated sexual mystic, believed that love was the manifestation of the hereafter into the here and now, and that each time you made love, you did so literally -- the rubbing of genitals warming the earth with the fires of heaven -- as well as enlarged your future space in eternity.

I was still, and more than ever, the same man, fed by the fruits and flesh of earth, and giving back to the soil their unconsumed residue, surrendering to sleep with each revolution of the stars, and nearly beside myself when too long deprived of the warming presence of love.