I would have been glad to meet with another scorcher, and yet another, that for the sake of my fair lady I might engage with each and humble his pride in the dust.
"A Bicycle of Cathay"
Frank R. Stockton
"The day bids fair to be a scorcher.
"Ethelyn's Mistake"
Mary Jane Holmes
Not far ahead of me there came from a side road into the main avenue on which I was travelling a scorcher, scorching.
"A Bicycle of Cathay"
Frank R. Stockton