All 5 Uses of
parched
in
The Return of the King
- Sharing a wafer of lembas, and munching it as best they could with their parched mouths.†
Chpt 6.2 *parched = dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or very thirsty
- He had stinted himself, and in his parched mouth his tongue seemed thick and swollen; but for all his care they now had very little left, perhaps half his bottle, and maybe there were still days to go.†
Chpt 6.3
- He was in pain, and so parched that he could no longer swallow even a mouthful of food.†
Chpt 6.3
- As he looked up he would have given a shout, if his parched throat had allowed him; for amid the rugged humps and shoulders above him he saw plainly a path or road.†
Chpt 6.3
- 'A great Shadow has departed,' said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count.†
Chpt 6.4