torched on by that fly-by-night who'll be getting out of town and who'll be forgotten inside a week.
"When Egypt Went Broke"
Holman Day
He would have drummed and torched with a will.
"Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1"
Francis Hueffer (translator)
Another point was that she had not resented his coming back that last night, but had been proud and happy in it as proof of his love, and had always meant somehow to let him know that she was torched by his trusting her enough to come back while he was still under that cloud with Mr. Stoller.
"Their Silver Wedding Journey"
William Dean Howells