"We need to discuss the details of this plan of yours," he said, and sipped at the scalding liquid.
He yanked the cup from her and in the process sloshed some of the scalding liquid onto his chest.
He winced as he sipped, and I don't think it was the scalding liquid.
Nancy set it down so hard that the scalding liquid splashed her wrist.
What air he was able to inhale was heavy inside him, like a scalding liquid.
While he dialed the hospital, he sipped the scalding black liquid and tried not to burn his mouth.
Brun cried as the scalding liquid poured over him.
He stared down at his green tea that she had insisted on fixing for him, and then took a hasty sip of the scalding liquid.
And he brought an urn of oily black scalding liquid which he said was coffee.
She sipped the scalding liquid; it burned her tongue.