scorches

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But he sleeps, or is absent, or lending His ear to man's prouder petition: And the black silence over us bending Scorches hot with the breath of perdition.

From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Victor, Frances Fuller

He who to th' unwilling furrows Gives the generous grain, When the Crab with baleful fervours Scorches all the plain; He shall find his garner bare, Acorns for his scanty fare.

From The Consolation of Philosophy by James, H. R. (Henry Rosher)