All 5 Uses of
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Lonesome Dove
- Or do you just sit around all day with your throat parched.†
Chpt 7-8 *parched = dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or very thirsty
- As he moved into the Quitaque, a parched country where shallow red canyons stretched west toward the Palo Duro, Augustus would see little spiraling dust devils rising from the exposed earth far ahead of him.†
Chpt 54-55
- The sun couldn't parch him while he was under the trees.†
Chpt 64-65parch = dry out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or make very thirsty
- Also, he grew stingy with water, which irritated the cowboys, who came in parched and dusty, dying for a drink.†
Chpt 89-90parched = dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight; or very thirsty
- He looked around at the parched country, the naked ridges where the earth had split from drought.†
Chpt 89-90