It was blisteringly hot and from off the shore there was borne on the wind the peculiar smell that every traveler knows as "African."
"The Boy Aviators in Africa"
Captain Wilbur Lawton
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 distress, for they began to fear that they had reached that zone of fire which had always been said to exist in the southern ocean.
"Christopher Columbus, Volume 6 And The New World Of His Discovery, A Narrative"
Filson Young
Hester's attic was blisteringly hot.
"Red Pottage"
Mary Cholmondeley