The native driver of each, walking alongside, wields his whip languidly and lazily, and the leader is so tired that he can hardly put one foot before the other, for the day has been a sweltering hot one.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
I was only going to say-and I hope her majesty Queen Cleopatra can't hear me-that the only course open to us seems to be to wait our chance and bolt; and I'll be blest if I run, or try to run, through this sweltering jungle to save myself or anybody else.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
She did not know that to obtain such things men and women in the far-off world would be willing to sacrifice almost everything; that for those common things men were sweltering, fighting, and dying; or that if the richness of the Quaska valley became known a vast army of gold seekers would pour into the place and change peace into chaos.
"If Any Man Sin"
H. A. Cody