Average is like having one foot in ice water and one foot in scalding water - on the average you are comfortable. From LearnThat.org. [Anonymous.]
Verb (used with object) : to scald milk. From Dictionary.com.
Imbu'd with tepid gore, or drench'd in scalding tears!. From Wordnik.com. [A Fragment, Supposed to be Written near the Temple, On the Night Before the Murder of Louis the Sixteenth] Reference
What if I took a bath in scalding water, let the water run my skin red?. From Wordnik.com. [October « 2008 «] Reference
They doused her in scalding water, ripped out her hair and made her drink from a toilet. From Wordnik.com. [Where poems come from. : Patricia Smith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
Life can be found in scalding, acidic hot pools, in the driest deserts, and in the dark, crushing depths of the ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
I think the Republicans are going to have to be, well, I'd say more judicious in their rhetoric than using that kind of scalding rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2006] Reference
"scalding" for some time after the other servants -- who, as I said, were few in number -- that night had got to their beds. From Wordnik.com. [Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle] Reference
But, instead of being scalding hot, it was icy cold. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz] Reference
This will save you money and lower risk of scalding injuries. From Wordnik.com. [Spring ahead! Daylight-saving time starts March 14] Reference
Into a pint of scalding milk stir two tablespoonfuls of fine oatmeal. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Sometimes, she fantasized about plunging her head in the scalding liquid. From Wordnik.com. [Luther Loves Lucy] Reference
It had no further pain, and the effects of the scalding were quickly gone. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
I stay still, sensing a small creature in the doorway with scalding liquid. From Wordnik.com. [STUTERER, two chapters (from a novel yet to be written)] Reference
Infuse one pint of ground malt for two hours in three pints of scalding water. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
The fire in his body, the scalding heat that had been quenched by the cold water. From Wordnik.com. [But, I Don't Think] Reference
The work on the piggery was to include a hog-dipping vat, a platform and scalding vat. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasure] Reference
Frum's book, constantly scolding and sometimes scalding, should complicate their complacency. From Wordnik.com. [Up From Geniality] Reference
The next sensation was as though someone had dumped a large bucket of scalding hot water on me. From Wordnik.com. [The only ones: Escaping near death] Reference
They also poured scalding water on her wounds and pounded her arms until they were black and blue. From Wordnik.com. [Iron Bars and Scalding Water] Reference
At the thought Willa's heart contracted and the quick, scalding tears of weakness came to her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
He said he suffered burns to his mouth and lips when it spewed scalding grease after he bit into it. From Wordnik.com. [Settlement in Va. chicken sandwich suit] Reference
His last interview within its walls could still make him wince when he recalled it, word by scalding word. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
With the choking dust and scalding glare of the sun, the whole scene might have been an anteroom to Tophet. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
By the time we had climbed free of the machine, the heat was already scalding our backs. From Wordnik.com. [Love in War Time] Reference
Unlike the even more conservative Scalia, he rarely showed anger or hurled scalding rhetoric at his colleagues. From Wordnik.com. [Transition: Hail To The Chief] Reference
Soak all night, changing the water at bed time for tepid and again early in the morning for almost scalding hot. From Wordnik.com. [The Suffrage Cook Book] Reference
And Arethusa wept some more, scalding tears of still another sort of penitence: Aunt 'Senath was such a darling!. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
And heavier grew the weight on the breast of the Brook, as scalding tears fell from the rock above upon her face. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
Unfortunately, we have a second course of humid heat here in the next few days, but do not expect as much of a scalding. From Wordnik.com. [Forecast: Remove from boil and then simmer] Reference
Technology stocks are hot, up about 50 percent on average this year, but AOL is positively scalding, up about 135 percent. From Wordnik.com. [Online's Bottom Line] Reference
"I want to make a map like Hope's class had to," answered Peace, pouring an apronful of scraps into a bucket of scalding water. From Wordnik.com. [At the Little Brown House] Reference
In consequence the juices would ooze out, trickle scalding hot between the fingers, and compel the helpless man to drop the pie. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
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