sear one side, turn and sear other side.
"The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes"
Lewis Webb Hill Rena S. Eckman
Hate would heal, would sear, at least; but oh!
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
I am now-alas, that I should say it-somewhat in the "sear and yellow;" and I confess, after the experience of some moments of high, triumphant feeling, that I never before felt within me, the same animating, spirit-filling glow of delight, as rose within my heart that day, as I marched at the head of my company down George's-street.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)