Thesaurus / red-hot
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And the burning wood hissed in the eye, just as the red-hot iron hisses in the water when a man seeks to temper steel for a sword.
In such case the article may be heated in red-hot lead, the surface of which may be covered with charcoal.
Yet would not I hold a red-hot iron in my hand for all the gladness of them.
GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUEL, COMPLETE.FRANCOIS RABELAIS
She is a red-hot Secessionist, as they all are, except Coulter himself, but she is a good wife and high-bred lady.
They could not scare him with the red-hot furnaces, and they can not now scare him with the lions.
NEW TABERNACLE SERMONSTHOMAS DE WITT TALMAGE
They also made cakes, or patties, out of fish, and baked them on red-hot coals.
DISCOVERERS AND EXPLORERSEDWARD R. SHAW
Seeing a red-hot poker-point in your fingers would give you the same turn.
THE HAUNTED PAJAMASFRANCIS PERRY ELLIOTT
Then he brought the chain and the anvil, and welded the red-hot iron upon her limb.
THE FLOCKMASTER OF POISON CREEKGEORGE W. OGDEN
This cruel recalling of the past, which was the remorse of her life, was like touching her flesh with a red-hot iron.
PRINCE ZILAH, COMPLETEJULES CLARETIE
This dog is of the true British breed; if she seizes you, red-hot iron will not loose her, till she hears the bone crack.
HYPATIACHARLES KINGSLEY
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