They're just part of the challenge of living with the elements - the salt spray and the scorching sand.

He noticed Gyp, his tail drooping, suffering miserably from the scorching sand beneath his paws.

In a major step intended to ease some of the burden for the American troops camped in the scorching sands, the Armed Forces Radio began transmitting here two days ago.

He pumped the M-203 to lock in the 40 mm load, then hugged the scorching sand and rock as he propped his elbow into the ground and fired a smoke grenade.

The Luggage set off unsteadily across the scorching sand, full of hope.

The tract in which Andkhui stands is fertile, but proverbially unhealthy; the Persians account it "a hell upon earth" by reason of its scorching sands, brackish water, flies and scorpions.

He was traversing the scorching sands of a mighty desert, barefoot and alone.

Again Jim remembered the hot sand, and that regard, more scorching than the white sun, pinning him, examining him.

With music blaring from loudspeakers, sun worshipers dancing on the boardwalk and spectators jockeying for towel space on the scorching sand, a California atmosphere surrounded the courts.

He plans to take a donkey along and walk seven hours to the west, across the scorching sand.