All 8 Uses of
parched
in
Gone with the Wind
- "Mother of Sorrows," moaned Gerald, moving a thickly furred tongue around parched lips.†
Chpt 2.10
- Their men might be dying, even now, on the sun-parched grass of the Pennsylvania hills.†
Chpt 2.14
- But for the most part the sunny valley was abandoned and desolate and the untended crops stood in parching fields.†
Chpt 3.17 *
- Gulping down the bitter brew of parched corn and dried sweet potatoes that passed for coffee, she went out to join the girls.†
Chpt 3.17
- Scarlett held wobbling heads that parched lips might drink, poured buckets of water over dusty, feverish bodies and into open wounds that the men might enjoy a brief moment's relief.†
Chpt 3.18
- The heavy hominy stuck in her throat like glue and never before had the mixture of parched corn and ground-up yams that passed for coffee been so repulsive.†
Chpt 3.21
- Her tongue was furred and her throat parched as if flames had scorched it and no amount of water could assuage her thirst.†
Chpt 3.25
- The troop had added their ration of parched corn and side meat to the supper of dried peas, stewed dried apples and peanuts which Mammy set before them and they declared it was the best meal they had had in months.†
Chpt 3.28
Definition:
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(parched) dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or very thirsty