"Parch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... whereas the sun doth parch the green, Or where his beams do not dissolve the ice, In temperate heat where he is felt and seen, In presence pressed of people mad or wise, Set me in high, or yet in low degree, In longest night, or ...
— Tudor and Stuart Love Songs • Various
... oven were used instead of the cook stove to bake the pone or johnny cake, to parch the corn, or to fry the venison which was then obtainable in the ...
— Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail • Ezra Meeker
... breath forth cast; And there for honey bees have sought in vain, And, beat from thence, have lighted there again. About her neck hung chains of pebble-stone, Which, lighten'd by her neck, like diamonds shone. She ware no gloves; for neither sun nor wind Would burn or parch her hands, but, to her mind, Or warm or cool them, for they took delight To play upon those hands, they were so white. Buskins of shell, all silver'd, used she, And branch'd with blushing coral to the knee; ...
— Hero and Leander and Other Poems • Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman
... father hated me; My brother rather hated me than loved; My sister cowers and hates me. Holy Virgin, Plead with thy blessed Son; grant me my prayer: Give me my Philip; and we two will lead The living waters of the Faith again Back thro' their widow'd channel here, and watch The parch'd banks rolling incense, as of old, To heaven, and kindled with ...
— Queen Mary and Harold • Alfred Lord Tennyson
... the streams that most refresh us In the desert parch'd and drear, Sorrow renders love more precious, Makes ...
— Eidolon - The Course of a Soul and Other Poems • Walter R. Cassels
... as one fatigu'd with heat, Who near at hand beholds a shady bower, Joyful, in hope-amidst the kind retreat To shun the day-star in his noon-tide hour; Or as when parch'd with droughty thirst he spies A mossy ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753),Vol. V. • Theophilus Cibber
... an' she come back an' ha'nt him an' he growed thinner an' thinner an' weasler an' weasler, tell finely he wan't nothin' 't all but a skel'ton, an' the Bad Man won't 'low nobody 't all to give his parch' tongue no water, an' he got to, ever after amen, be toast on a pitchfork. An' Oleander Magnolia Althea is the nex'," he continued, enumerating Peruny Pearline's offspring on his thin, well molded fingers, "she got the seven ...
— Miss Minerva and William Green Hill • Frances Boyd Calhoun
... detestable.— The second chose the hospitals. I give him praise: to solace pain Is charity not spent in vain, While men in part are animals. The sick—for things went then as now they go— Gave trouble to the almoner, I trow. Impatient, sour, complaining ever, As rack'd by rheum, or parch'd with fever,— 'His favourites are such and such; With them he watches over-much, And lets us die,' they say,— Such sore complaints from day to day Were nought to those that did await The reconciler of debate. His judgments suited neither side; Forsooth, in either party's view, ...
— The Fables of La Fontaine - A New Edition, With Notes • Jean de La Fontaine
... low, for the terrible spell of the great heat brooded upon them. All abroad burned the fierce white light of the sun, in which not only the earth seemed to parch and thirst, but the very air withered, and was faint and thin to the troubled respiration. Their train was full of people who had come long journeys from broiling cities of the West, and who were dusty ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... and what there doth spring With honey that from virgin hives distill'd; Parch'd body, hollow eyes, some uncouth thing Made him appear, ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... no ampler places to cultivate with reverence and love, let us betake ourselves to the hanging gardens on our roof. The suns will cake the insufficient earth and parch the delicate roots; the storms will batter and tear the frail creepers. No doubt. But at this present moment all is fair and fragrant. And when the storms have done their wicked worst, and the sun and the frosts—nay, ...
— Hortus Vitae - Essays on the Gardening of Life • Violet Paget, AKA Vernon Lee
... spiritual, or etheric body it is said, "Fire burns it not; water wets it not; the sword cleaves it not; dry winds parch ...
— Cosmic Consciousness • Ali Nomad
... was locusts and what there doth spring, With honey that from virgin hives distill'd, Parch'd body, hollow eyes, some uncouth thing Made him appear, long since from earth ...
— John the Baptist • F. B. Meyer
... 15th of March Friday 1805 a fine day I put out all the goods & Parch meal Clothing &c to Sun, a number of Indians here to day They make maney remarks respecting our goods &c. Set Some men about ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al
... streets are pav'd, 'tis true, but all the stones Are set the wrong end up, in shape of cones; And strangers limp along the best pav'd street, As if parch'd peas were strew'd beneath their feet, Whilst custom makes the Natives scarcely feel Sharp-pointed pebbles press the ...
— Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham - A History And Guide Arranged Alphabetically • Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
... reply. "Parch shall these lips of mine, And my tongue shall shrink, and my throat go dry, Ere ever I taste your wine! But greet you shall, as I know full well, A tipsy score of my friends in Hell. And I name no names, but the whole world wots Most of my ...
— The Glugs of Gosh • C. J. Dennis |
