He seldom opened his eyes to the parching, baking air.

It was cooler, a welcome relief from the parching of the sun without.

In the primitive bathroom, Gary's first fumbling efforts were to try to relieve the painful parching of his throat, mouth, and tongue.

Call a friend, if you have one, in Death Valley, where the nation's highest temperature was recorded Monday at a parching 125 degrees.

No trace of' relieving sweat; only the dry stretched skin of persistent parching, fiery with heat.

He licked up some of the moisture greedily, and it relieved the parching of his mouth and throat.

There's a high, bright wind here that sears across a silver sky, and the farmers these days are looking for an event called rain, the last before summer's parching.

"Prophecy indicates that more scorching and parching of the earth comes later, so it's likely the darkening and resultant cooling is temporary.

We learned to select the largest grains for the seed, so that all the rice we thereafter ate was larger-grained and puffier in the parching and the boiling.

It is hard to tie any single drought unequivocally to the solid evidence of global warming, but that too lurks in many people's minds as the ultimate cause of this summer's parching.

He felt sleepiness parching his eyes and, as a veteran driver, stopped by the road, let Hazel jolt awake in the motion of stopped motion, turned the wheel over to her and tried to doze off.

On every block in the region the desperation of these homeowners is almost palpable, as they will their lawns to soak it up and beat the drought that is parching Georgia and most of the Gulf Coast.

THE DEMISE OF GEOGRAPHY The nomad of the past moved through blizzards and parching heat, always pursued by hunger, but he carried with him his buffalo-hide tent, his family and the rest of his tribe.

The sun couldn't parch him while he was under the trees.

He sat back and gazed out of the car, feeling the hot afternoon air parching his skin.

The corn did not parch well, and was barely edible.

Turtle Heart seemed to wilt and parch as autumn came on.

He grunted in pain, every intake of breath parching his throat.

I was going to parch it and store it.

In dry months, the fierce sun can parch the soil enough to trigger a famine.

Men felt it parch their eyeballs and stood back from trying to breast it.

It would hardly raise the knights' opinion of him, if he spent hours parching lambskin.

The light ahead dazzled her, and the hear swept over her in parching waves.

In a matter of hours, Johnny knew, it would parch their skin and crack their lips.

You let me refresh myself in the brook here, but even so, I sense how my flesh is slowly parching."

Presently, he knew, thirst would begin to parch his throat and hunger to gnaw at him.

In the first case the object is to parch brittle, in the second merely to condense.

"Do you believe it to be part of Sprapter's plan that I must parch to death?"

While most of the rest of the world experiences the global waterfall at least sometimes, the Atacama is left to parch.

Hepburn never asked him to stop drinking, worried perhaps that his sobriety might parch the dependency in which they swam.

Her head ached, and thirst was parching her mouth and throat.

"We did not parch," the female said.

"Don't want to parch up like a raisin.

Men weighed down with rifles and knapsacks, and parching with war.

Never did take to lettin' anybody else parch m' coffee."

Besides, I am starving, and parching with thirst."

North and south they encroached, withering the steppes, parching the valleys, crawling up into the hills.

The corn in its husks was parching I before it ripened and the pasture lands had withered.