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adjective

Sultry adj. (compar. sultrier; superl. sultriest)

Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts. "Such as, born beneath the burning sky And sultry sun, betwixt the tropics lie."

Very hot and humid, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air. "When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain plant."

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Etymology of 'Sultry'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sultry" Quotes from Famous Books

... the year has its peculiar amusements, and among a people of primitive habits, these amusements are gone through with a kind of religious observance. There is the hay-time in summer when, under the sultry sky, and amid the strong scents of the hardier field-flowers, the huge wain is driven from the stubble field into the shadows of the impending woods, and around it the workers sing and make merry in token of joy for the abundant yield of sweet grass that shall fatten the kine in the drear barren ...

— The Bastonnais - Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 • John Lesperance

... driving, we came to the entrance of a narrow canyon. We tied the horse, and, with as many shovels as I could carry on my shoulder, and with the jug, I followed my friend, who had taken a couple of shovels and two heavy axes. It was a sultry midsummer day, and how I ...

— Buffalo Roost • F. H. Cheley

... the upper air. Under the elms, swift southern twilight was already filling the arches with purple gloom, and when the heavy iron gate closed with a sullen clang behind her, Beryl drew a long deep breath of relief. On the sultry atmosphere broke the gurgling andante music of the "branch," as it eddied among the nodding ferns, and darted under the bridge; and the weary, thirsty woman knelt on the mossy margin, dipped up the amber water ...

— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson

... pushed on northwards again, leaving us wondering. Through the heat of the day we rested as well as we might, but the air was motionless and sultry and the camels ill at ease. The Arabs said that it boded a desert storm, and that a great wind would arise full of sand. So we arose in the afternoon, and travelled swiftly, hoping to come to shelter before the storm. And the air burned in the ...

— The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories • Lord Dunsany

... could not find room inside, so the late-comers sat upon the ground in the doorway, or as near as they could get to it. As the people inside knelt or stood, so did they who had been left, not out in the cold, but in the heat, for the sun had broken through the mist, and the weather was sultry. As I walked round the church I found women sitting with open books and rosaries in their hands near the apse, amidst the yarrow and mulleins of forgotten grave mounds. They were following the service by the open ...

— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker

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