And before the week was out they had more'n forty families on the standin' order list, with new squads of soup scorchers bein' fired every day.
"Torchy and Vee"
Sewell Ford
On the other side, a group of workmen were singing as they passed on their way to the barriers, their "throat-scorchers" between their teeth.
"Bohemians of the Latin Quarter"
Henry Murger
We do not think our book needs an apology, explanation, or preface; nor does it seem to us worth while to give our route-form, since the road from London to Canterbury is almost as well known to cyclers as the Strand, or the Lancaster Pike; nor to record our time, since we were pilgrims and not scorchers.
"A Canterbury Pilgrimage"
Joseph Pennell and Elizabeth Robins Pennell