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In Florida, April is the cruelest month, dropping oak pollen onto the parched earth.
Because a parched mouth can contribute to bad breath, drink four to six glasses of water or unsweetened herbal teas throughout the day.
Naval pilots have been sent to seed the clouds in an effort to bring rain to ease the drought in parched provinces of northeast Thailand.
With the population surge, the springs were diverted to municipal uses and the streams dried up leaving once irrigated orchards as parched lands.
Her hands clutched feebly around the silky pillowcase and her parched throat just barely managed to utter a low pain filled moan.
His voice reminds you of the long awaited monsoon showers caressing the parched earth.
It's amazing what those twitchers can spot in the parched outback in Winter.
The lambs bleated for moisture, their tongues rattling in their parched pink mouths.
They would mop his brow and place wine and bread to his parched lips and inform him he was awake.
The painting of the sixth stage captures the network of sinews and muscles that appear under the parched skin.
Now, Darce, buddy, how about you run along and get William here a soda, he looks quite parched.
All we had to do was pipe water from the underpopulated, rain-rich North to the populous but parched South.
With care he crouched and drank, filling a mouth that seemed always parched, striving to slake a thirst he could no longer quench.
The ground was hard and brown and rocky, parched, but the caw of birds from a nearby grove of olive trees muted the sound of my footsteps.
The seeds would then be sun dried or parched over a slow fire to crack open the hulls to then be threshed by trampling.
He even made a sluice of tin and boards to catch and carry the rainwater to the parched crops.
The film opens with semi-cryptic narration from a child walking silhouetted through parched trees.
And there was all that talk of war, war against an invisible enemy, an unseen speck on a parched landscape.
When the first Aurovilians arrived, they were confronted with a parched barren ochre coloured landscape.
Looking out over this parched, shimmering landscape in the cold hard light of morning it's a miracle that anything survives here at all.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The chick-pea, as found by experiment, can be parched over coals in a few moments and thus be made edible.
We will swap the veldt and the parched Karoo,For the plain and ranges clear.
His throat was parched, his eyelids were twitching, and his temples were beating like drums.
As a spark of fire consumeth summer's parched and sapless wood, Kuru's lordless, lifeless forces shall be angry Arjun's food!
The parched earth had split open everywhere in gaping cracks that intersected and made patterns in the garden like a crazy quilt.
This Tanna must be parched in a Pan, and then is beaten in a Mortar to unhusk it.
That night sleep forsook his eyelids, and his mouth was parched and his spirit bitter.
The seeds are then parched and pulverized, and usually stored as pinole, for winter use.
Hours of anxiety and effort under a blazing sun had parched and fouled my lips, and my throat was dry as unslaked lime.
It was like a brook overflowing after a rainstorm when the soil is parched.
The air was still, heavy, and parched with the breath of the australasian sirocco.
The canteens were soon emptied, and still their lips and throats were parched.
Gilian was trembling and parched at the lips now, awake to the enormity of his forwardness.
Their tongues became parched, and clove to the roofs of their mouths.
They went feverish and gaunt, with parched mouths and griped stomachs.
Her brow was hot and throbbing, and her lips were parched and feverish.
With parched throats, gasping for breath, they lay back in agony.
The country after the green of the Antilles looked brown and parched.
Is there parched or desert soil on the banks of the Colorado?
We panted as we pelted on, parched and weary, faint and footsore.
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