What is "scalding"

Usage examples of "scalding".

There are, furthermore, the accompanying symptoms of a coated tongue, bitter taste in the mouth, unpleasant eructations, scalding of the throat from regurgitation, offensive breath, sick headache, giddiness, disturbed sleep, sallow countenance, heart-burn, morbid craving after food, constant anxiety and apprehension, fancied impotency, and fickleness.

But his head was thumping so hard from hurrying that he took time out for a bromo and a cup of scalding hot coffee in the drugstore in a corner of the studio building before lie took the elevator upstairs.

Mr Perse came in, ate a great many sandwiches in an incredibly short time, drank a scalding cup of tea and then tore out again to superintend the revels in the Butts.

The large paddle kissed the naked spheres of flesh vehemently, scalding and reddening them instantly.

Gwalchmai knew from long experience that unslaked lime, scalding water, or boiling oil was the cause.

The final shell ruptured the main steam line in the forward fireroom, killing three of the five-man crew instantly and scalding the other two, one fatally.

She gripped him, struggling to pull him closer, and then suddenly her hips arched, as she thrust herself upon his keenly sensitive horn, and with blinding, earth-shattering clarity, Zarnak felt the burning tip breach her maidenhead, spearing into the depths of her pulsing cunt, her warm blood coating the silver casing of his horn in a scalding, deliciously wet wash of ecstasy.

It consisted of a pot of scalding tea, three kas crackers, and six mola berries.

He sang of an ancient conflagration, how flames burst through the roofs of the caverns under the sea because they had stoked the fires too high in the workshops of Poseidon, burst up and made a mountain with a burning mouth and the discharge from this mouth destroyed the island of Thera and made the sea boil, killing all the creatures of the deep, rearing up in a scalding wave as high as the palace of Pylos that ran against Crete and destroyed all the ships in the harbours of Cnossus and Cydonia, and the ashes of the fire covered all the land and nothing would grow and the people starved.

Scalding hot it is, as one can see by the faces, but for all that it disappears with surprising rapidity.

Farther down, Sibbi bending like an Egyptian over a bowl of osiers and sun-mummified flowers, Sibbi with her magical face and her bright shallow brain, and her husband Arthur, a bear, at the eternal business of his pipe, knocking out dottle, refilling it, that rank black tobacco odour woven by now into the scalding incense of every room.

An even larger company was gathering beyond them, along with ballistae, trebuchets and hurlersthe latter with their buckets of scalding gravel steaming like cauldrons.

Those who rebuke Sister Aimee are doomed to boil forever in a scalding cauldron of pus and Negro semen.

The donkey brayed a mighty protest, but the cart jerked and they set off again as the sun glared down, burning his skin, scalding his eyes, making tears run from the face of a dead man who wasn't dead at all.

Yet parcht with scalding thurst and hunger fierce, Though to delude them sent, could not abstain, But on they rould in heaps, and up the Trees Climbing, sat thicker then the snakie locks That curld MEGAERA: greedily they pluck'd The Frutage fair to sight, like that which grew Neer that bituminous Lake where SODOM flam'd.