What is "sultriness"

Usage examples of "sultriness".

He mounted the steps slowly, savoring the sultriness of the morning and the way the heat rose in his loins.

She possessed a sultriness, a sensuality, and an appeal that kept him wrapped in knots, until he questioned his sanity.

A few moments later Stanton, finding the object of his thoughts did not appear among the guests who sought to escape the sultriness of the evening on the wide piazzas or in the large, spacious parlor, began to wander restlessly in a half-unconscious search.

Van Berg soon appeared, but Miss Burton, on this occasion, managed that the singing should be maintained by quite a large group about the piano, and on account of the sultriness of the evening the service of song was brief.

Leading then the way, and shewing our friends an example of continency, which they were giving signs of losing respect to, we went hand in hand into the stream, till it took us up to our neck, where the no more than grateful coolness of the water gave my senses a delicious refreshment from the sultriness of the season, and made more alive, more happy in myself, and, in course, more alert, and open to voluptuous impressions.

He looked up, at first with a stern, keen glance, which penetrated at once into the obscurity behind the arched window, then with a smile, which might be conceived as diffusing a dogday sultriness for the space of several yards about him.