"Grilling" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "She is a spoiled madcap, Sir Everard, and I am afraid the fault is mine. She has been everywhere with me in her seventeen years of life—freezing amid the snows of Canada and grilling alive under the broiling sun of India. And the ...
— The Baronet's Bride • May Agnes Fleming
... used to spread itself fresh every morning on the matting under her bed in Bentinck Street. Later on they would agree that perhaps by this time there was a "break in the rains," and that nothing in the world was so trying as a break in the rains, the sun grilling down and drawing up steam from every puddle. In September, things, they remembered, would be at their very worst and most depressing; one had hardly the energy to lift a finger in September. Mrs. Simpson ...
— The Path of a Star • Mrs. Everard Cotes (AKA Sara Jeannette Duncan)
... face at him. "Because it's cooler off. You can carry it if you like." She threw it to him nonchalantly with the words, and turned forthwith to Sheila. "Have you just been round the Stables? Grilling, isn't it? I've been exercising one of the youngsters. He nearly pulled my arms off. We've been ...
— Charles Rex • Ethel M. Dell
... scalding, scorching, grilling, broiling, tropical, candent; vehement, passionate, irascible, fervid, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming
... change in the line-up of Chester, for luckily all the boys had come through the grilling work of the past week without encountering any serious injuries. Harmony had not been quite so lucky, for their efficient third baseman, Young, had had his collarbone fractured during practice, and would be incapacitated from service the balance of ...
— Jack Winters' Baseball Team - Or, The Rivals of the Diamond • Mark Overton
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