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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.

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.

They also made cakes, or patties, out of fish, and baked them on red-hot coals.

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.

This cruel recalling of the past, which was the remorse of her life, was like touching her flesh with a red-hot iron.

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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