Terry!" She grabbed a mop to damp down the heat, but the air outside was scorching, and intolerable.
The bones are generally allowed for a few days to dry under the scorching sun before removal.
It was scorching to the touch and had swollen to the point of bursting.
During the hold-up, Maclaine accidentally fired his pistol, scorching Walpole's face.
WITH the fires still raging, scorching industry after industry, it might seem premature to ask what should rise from the ashes.
But late at night the door to the car park opens and a laser beam shoots out of the side of the trailer, scorching the cement wall at the far end, 100 metres away.The researchers at Ludger Wöste's laboratory who control this device are not, despite appearances, rehearsing for the next James Bond movie.
And above all, literally, is the weather, benign and beautiful much of the time, but often by turns scorching, soaking, dehydrating, burning, blowing, parching, cyclonic, cancer-causing and generally destructive.That may be one reason why Australians seem especially concerned about the environment.
On earth, "extremophile" bacteria have been discovered that are capable of thriving in extreme and inhospitable conditions such as inside scorching geothermal vents and even inside rocks where life was previously thought to be impossible.
Above, they would feel comfortable despite scorching temperatures, thanks mainly to clever urban planning, such as shady narrow streets oriented in such a way that they can be swept by cooling desert winds.More than six years later the future looks a bit less fantastic.
Though this biography is not unpleasant, it is unlikely to be welcome reading for Spender's widow, Natasha, as she comes to terms with the recent fire that devastated their house in Provence, destroying a library of his books and papers, and scorching the garden, her loving creation of 30 years.
