1 Antonia heated the water for him.
2 He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.
3 My wagon wasn't going out first, and somehow I felt the heat awful that day.
4 My hostess put the lamp on a stand in the corner, and turned it low because of the heat.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III 5 After a while one got restless under it, as one does under the heat of a soft, sultry summer day.
6 I could make two trips to the windmill to carry water, and heat it in the wash-boiler on the stove.
7 While the water was heating, I could bring in a washtub out of the cave, and take my bath in the kitchen.
8 Lena came out from Tony's room behind the kitchen, very pink from the heat of the feathers, but otherwise calm.
9 JULY CAME ON with that breathless, brilliant heat which makes the plains of Kansas and Nebraska the best corn country in the world.
10 They were both of them jovial about the cold in winter and the heat in summer, always ready to work overtime and to meet emergencies.
11 Some of the high-school girls were jolly and pretty, but they stayed indoors in winter because of the cold, and in summer because of the heat.
12 In the afternoon, when the heat was less oppressive, we had a lively game of 'Pussy Wants a Corner,' on the flat bluff-top, with the little trees for bases.
13 I used to lie in my bed by the open window, watching the heat lightning play softly along the horizon, or looking up at the gaunt frame of the windmill against the blue night sky.
14 If all the great plain from the Missouri to the Rocky Mountains had been under glass, and the heat regulated by a thermometer, it could not have been better for the yellow tassels that were ripening and fertilizing the silk day by day.
15 His girls never looked so pretty at the dances as they did standing by the ironing-board, or over the tubs, washing the fine pieces, their white arms and throats bare, their cheeks bright as the brightest wild roses, their gold hair moist with the steam or the heat and curling in little damp spirals about their ears.