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Definition of Blisteringly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blisteringly
Literary usage of Blisteringly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"“It is blisteringly hot up here,” said I, “let us return to the cool of the trees.
A moment though! You have a keen sight. Can you distinguish anywhere upon ..."
2. Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery by Filson Young, Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin Dunraven (1906)
"The vertical rays of the sun shone blisteringly down upon them, making the seams
of the ships gape and causing the unhappy crews mental as well as bodily ..."
3. South Africa and the Transvaal War by Louis Creswicke (1900)
"It was tough work, the sugar-loaf eminence being steep and stony and the sun
above blisteringly hot. Thus they sweated and toiled for a whole hour. ..."
4. The Autobiography of Theodore Edgar Potter by Theodore Edgar Potter (1913)
"The thermometer indicated one hundred degrees, the sun shone blisteringly hot on
those bare, black rocks and we had no water for stock until we reached the ..."
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