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  • It was a high—speed frigate furnished with superheating equipment that allowed the tension of its steam to build to seven atmospheres.†  (source)
  • The entire gate began to glow, as if the metal had become superheated, and its double doors swung inward, revealing a field of stars.†  (source)
  • During the summer months, however, superheated air rises from the scorched earth like bubbles from the bottom of a boiling kettle, rushing heavenward in turbulent convection currents.†  (source)
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  • We share the day's rumors and tell bad jokes and push back against the silence inside our own heads, the place where the never-ending voiceless scream rises like the superheated air above a lava flow.†  (source)
  • Oceans of superheated air swelling like warm skin rising to a lover's touch.†  (source)
  • The thimble was a crucial part of architect Frank Burnham's design, meant to shield the surrounding wooden walls from the superheated gases exiting the stack.†  (source)
  • The leaves are fully out, the irises are in bloom, there's a heat wave; the gymnasium heats up like an oven and we all sit in there, superheated, writing away, while the gymnasium exudes its smell of bygone athletes.†  (source)
  • She sees the fireball climbing, the superheated sphere of burning gas that can blind a person with its beauty, its dripping christblood colors, solar golds and reds.†  (source)
  • Max and the others were flung back by the rushing backlash of superheated air that singed their eyes and set their clothes to smoking.†  (source)
  • It hissed as it ate through the material; he felt the sting as it burned his skin like a dozen tiny superheated needles.†  (source)
  • A Martian came across the fields about midday, laying the stuff with a jet of superheated steam that hissed against the walls, smashed all the windows it touched, and scalded the curate's hand as he fled out of the front room.†  (source)
  • The boat fairly flew; we sweltered side by side in the stagnant superheated air; the smell of mud, of mush, the primeval smell of fecund earth, seemed to sting our faces; till suddenly at a bend it was as if a great hand far away had lifted a heavy curtain, had flung open un immense portal.†  (source)
  • Southern venti swirled through the hall in clouds of red dust and superheated air.†  (source)
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