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torrid as in:  a torrid love affair

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  • All of her affairs start torrid, but are short-lived.
  • In this she was successful; when the candle she chewed made contact with the torrid images she evoked, the candle began to burn.   (source)
  • On the Sabbath, Friday nights, it was a thrill for me to pretend I was going downstairs to the kitchen and then creep into the store to pick up the torrid love notes he slipped under the door.   (source)
  • Where are the torrid fantasies?   (source)
  • I used to have a torrid crush on the Partridge girl from LA.   (source)
  • "If you must know," I replied, deadpan, "for the past six months I've been having this torrid affair with Warren Jacobi."   (source)
  • Some lasted years; others were no more than a delightful afternoon. But all were torrid, mind you.   (source)
  • And then after a horrendous dry spell, I met Katherine XVI on the roof deck of a hotel in Newark, New Jersey, during an Academic Decathlon tournament in October of my junior year, and we had about as wild and torrid an affair as you can possibly have over the course of fourteen hours at an Academic Decathlon tournament, which is to say that at one point we had to kick her three roommates out of her hotel room so we could make out properly, but then even after I emerged from the…   (source)
  • She wanted this last weekend to be everything summer could be…hot, hazy, torrid.   (source)
  • Miri preferred her movies torrid and dark.   (source)
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  • He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature's requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom.   (source)
  • The Pagan leopards—the unrecking and unworshipping things, that live; and seek, and give no reasons for the torrid life they feel!   (source)
  • Most of those nights they'd spent engaged in torrid activities, like having contests to see who could take the longest to eat a single Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.   (source)
    torrid = passionate (said ironically)
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torrid as in:  the torrid noonday sun

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  • We traveled by night, rested during the torrid days.
  • The few times my reminiscing carried me back to that torrid afternoon, what I remembered first was the belt.   (source)
  • It was a foul day, torrid and hazy; hotter than the hinges of Hades, as Walter would say...   (source)
  • It's even hotter up here, torrid, and the smell of perspiration makes him light-headed.   (source)
    torrid = very hot
  • Sitting on the tremendous rock in the torrid sun, Roger received this news as an illumination.   (source)
    torrid = hot
  • Beer had never been my favorite, but it tasted fine, ice-cold, on such a torrid day.   (source)
  • We pushed our bed under the lattice window, hoping to catch a cool breeze, but there was none, just torrid stillness.   (source)
  • That darkness in which resolutions have to be made--it isn't merely local; it's the same darkness that exists in the fiercest clearnesses of torrid Messina.   (source)
  • The torrid cracks of the furnace gleamed in the crimson darkness and he heard the throaty undertone of the draft devouring the air.   (source)
  • But in that confident prophecy Chang was wrong, for less than a month after his arrival at Shangri-La Conway received a second summons to that torrid upper room.   (source)
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  • He had read the great poets, more characteristic of their race than the poets of other lands; for they seemed to have drawn their inspiration not at all from the general currents of the world's literature but directly from the torrid, scented plains and the bleak mountains of their country.   (source)
  • The blizzard of Montana or the torrid sirocco of the Staked Plain was no hindrance to the travel of the buffalo.   (source)
  • ...a world over-heated, ... while the comforts of a civilized life were as unattainable as in a desert. Through this atmosphere of torrid splendour moved...   (source)
    torrid = uncomfortably hot
  • The courtyard, a large square space, was one torrid blaze of sunshine, and, bathed in intense light, Cornelius was creeping across in full view with an inexpressible effect of stealthiness, of dark and secret slinking.   (source)
    torrid = hot
  • The ashes under the grate were lit by the fire vertically, like a torrid waste.   (source)
  • These latter came out of a dozen rivers—the Illinois, the Missouri, the Upper Mississippi, the Ohio, the Monongahela, the Tennessee, the Red River, the White River, and so on—and were bound every whither and stocked with every imaginable comfort or necessity, which the Mississippi's communities could want, from the frosty Falls of St. Anthony down through nine climates to torrid New Orleans.   (source)
  • There were no 'climates' as yet, and a torrid heat, equal from pole to equator, was spread over the whole surface of the globe.   (source)
    torrid = uncomfortably hot
  • She thought it good for them to see that she could make an excellent lather while she corrected their blunders "without looking,"—that a woman with her sleeves tucked up above her elbows might know all about the Subjunctive Mood or the Torrid Zone—that, in short, she might possess "education" and other good things ending in "tion," and worthy to be pronounced emphatically, without being a useless doll.   (source)
    torrid = hot
  • His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come, and to endure always, as now; for be it Polar snow or torrid sun, like a patent chronometer, his interior vitality was warranted to do well in all climates.   (source)
  • Shortly afterwards, a man in a blue cotton frock, much soiled, came in and bought a pipe, filling the whole shop, meanwhile, with the hot odor of strong drink, not only exhaled in the torrid atmosphere of his breath, but oozing out of his entire system, like an inflammable gas.   (source)
  • He was at first bare and out of doors; but though this was pleasant enough in serene and warm weather, by daylight, the rainy season and the winter, to say nothing of the torrid sun, would perhaps have nipped his race in the bud if he had not made haste to clothe himself with the shelter of a house.   (source)
  • I lie in a shady place like this and think of adventurous spirits going to the North Pole or penetrating to the heart of the Torrid Zone with admiration.   (source)
  • …and Reverend Jul Bat, who has converted the whole torrid zone in his Sunday school;   (source)
  • Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed—in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving;—boundless, endless, and sublime— The image of eternity; the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.   (source)
  • Then eels and fish, in backwaters, in currents, wriggled here and there at the scalding breath of torrid blasts from the great smith, Hephaistos, and dried away by them, the river cried: "Hephaistos, not one god can vie with you!"   (source)
  • There was a slow, torrid beat of her pulse.   (source)
    torrid = hot (possibly troubled)
  • This toxic vegetation has increased beneath the seas of the Torrid Zone, so the disease spreads unchecked from the mouth of the Rio de la Plata to Florida!   (source)
    torrid = hot
  • In cool, fresh weather Mrs. Yeobright would have found no inconvenience in walking to Alderworth, but the present torrid attack made the journey a heavy undertaking for a woman past middle age; and at the end of the third mile she wished that she had hired Fairway to drive her a portion at least of the distance.   (source)
    torrid = uncomfortably hot
  • This delicious produce from the Torrid Zones ripens all year round, and Malaysians, who give them the name "pisang," eat them without bothering to cook them.   (source)
    torrid = hot
  • It goes down south, skirts equatorial Africa, warms its waves in the rays of the Torrid Zone, crosses the Atlantic, reaches Cape São Roque on the coast of Brazil, and forks into two branches, one going to the Caribbean Sea for further saturation with heat particles.   (source)
  • …in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones:   (source)
  • O South, your torrid suns!   (source)
    torrid = uncomfortably hot
  • and the torrid clime Smote on him sore besides, vaulted with fire.   (source)
    torrid = very hot
  • unnumbered as the sands Of Barca or Cyrene's torrid soil,   (source)
  • Homeward returning.  High in front advanced,
    The brandished sword of God before them blazed,
    Fierce as a comet; which with torrid heat,
    And vapour as the Libyan air adust,
    Began to parch that temperate clime;   (source)
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torrid as in:  at a torrid pace

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  • Her torrid schedule left little time for personal life.
    torrid = hurried
  • I felt traumatized, embarrassed, trapped in my own emotionally torrid world.   (source)
    torrid = full of difficulty
  • Nestor had taken six wickets for twenty-five runs in a torrid spell of pace bowling, and four of those were by catches I took standing well behind the wicket.   (source)
    torrid = fast or hurried
  • As it was, he could only stare into Teeleh's torrid eyes and fight his own terror.   (source)
    torrid = terrible (filled with difficulty)
  • Mr. Bagnet is an exartilleryman, tall and upright, with shaggy eyebrows and whiskers like the fibres of a coco-nut, not a hair upon his head, and a torrid complexion.   (source)
    torrid = troubled
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