In Florida, April is the cruelest month, dropping oak pollen onto the parched earth. |
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Because a parched mouth can contribute to bad breath, drink four to six glasses of water or unsweetened herbal teas throughout the day. |
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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. |
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With the population surge, the springs were diverted to municipal uses and the streams dried up leaving once irrigated orchards as parched lands. |
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Her hands clutched feebly around the silky pillowcase and her parched throat just barely managed to utter a low pain filled moan. |
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His voice reminds you of the long awaited monsoon showers caressing the parched earth. |
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It's amazing what those twitchers can spot in the parched outback in Winter. |
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The lambs bleated for moisture, their tongues rattling in their parched pink mouths. |
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They would mop his brow and place wine and bread to his parched lips and inform him he was awake. |
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The painting of the sixth stage captures the network of sinews and muscles that appear under the parched skin. |
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Now, Darce, buddy, how about you run along and get William here a soda, he looks quite parched. |
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All we had to do was pipe water from the underpopulated, rain-rich North to the populous but parched South. |
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With care he crouched and drank, filling a mouth that seemed always parched, striving to slake a thirst he could no longer quench. |
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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. |
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The seeds would then be sun dried or parched over a slow fire to crack open the hulls to then be threshed by trampling. |
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He even made a sluice of tin and boards to catch and carry the rainwater to the parched crops. |
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The film opens with semi-cryptic narration from a child walking silhouetted through parched trees. |
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And there was all that talk of war, war against an invisible enemy, an unseen speck on a parched landscape. |
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When the first Aurovilians arrived, they were confronted with a parched barren ochre coloured landscape. |
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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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During my last visit to the Ethiopian highlands, I watched as huge flesh-eating carrion crows circled the parched crop fields. |
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This was excessively cold, but at least this mistake meant the chilled liquid quenched our parched mouths. |
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He says the downpour came at a critical time, after three parched months, which reduced the landscape to a dust bowl. |
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Loster also points out that lightning strikes increase with warmer weather, a threat to modern electronics and forests parched by extreme heat. |
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But a horrendous heat wave then parched their new island and fell with special fury on the king's shepherd. |
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The hot sun had already parched the rain from the day before from the ground. |
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The wheat is first parched then cooked in the milk and sugar and flavoured with spices and raisins. |
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On shore, the rice was dried in the sun, and then parched in a kettle to loosen the hull. |
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A large window looks out onto a parched golf course, while inside the air-conditioned office a putter and golf balls litter the carpet. |
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The landscape began to explode with life, strange mosses rising out of the parched earth. |
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The grass was less than perfect, parched patches dotted the lawn, and numerous dandelions stuck up here and there making the landscape ugly. |
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The rich fields that had fed thousands turned to charred, brown earth, parched and useless. |
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As the showers wet the parched roads and the soil becomes damp, the earth's true colours come into view. |
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Outside, the parched soil has turned to dust and his crops have failed disastrously. |
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A severe drought has left much of the country parched and barren, with some crops declared a complete failure. |
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But if a holiday were to be a grand interlude, as refreshing as gentle rain in a parched desert, then it would be the answer to many prayers. |
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Wearing a life vest, Ma took a boat to inspect the pitifully parched riverbeds of the funnel-shaped dam at the reservoir. |
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When he began to write about cricket most reporters wrote spare, parched descriptions of the play. |
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I hate it when I break out in goose pimples and my palms sweat and my throat goes all parched. |
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Each and every couple should plant a few tree saplings in their neighbourhood so that the parched earth could be greened, he felt. |
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But, not a drop of empyrean manna falls on my parched lips to assuage the thirst of aeons. |
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Opening his mouth, Peter took greedy gulps of it, allowing the cool gushes of water to douse his parched throat. |
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But if you see someone guzzling a sports or fruit drink, it is most likely because they're parched. |
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Iced coconut milk-shakes and tender-coconut water drawn out of dispensers were there for parched tongues. |
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To attract dollars to this parched economy, he is forced to open the country to tourism. |
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I saw a man at the close of day. Standing in the grocery door. His eyes were sunk, his lips were parched. |
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This forces parched buffalo, waterbucks, and other lion prey to gather at one of the few remaining sources of water. |
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Alas, the joint was shut, and there would be no refreshment for the parched 21st-century wayfarer. |
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But the parched ground and warm and sunny temperatures meant a flood of calls to attend fires on open ground. |
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Anybody too knackered to lift a cup of tea to parched lips can have it intravenously. |
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Root competition from the huge tulip poplars, ashes, and sweet gum trees contributes significantly to the parched soil conditions. |
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She was driven through the city, waving regally at her subjects who thronged the parched sidewalks on that hot summer's day. |
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The pods were threshed, and the seeds variously winnowed, yandied, parched, pounded, ground, and made into a paste to be baked into cakes. |
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Each December and January, rainstorms drench the parched South African landscape and summon African bullfrogs from their subterranean lairs. |
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The sun was relentless, and the heat reflected cruelly off the parched earth. |
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Stretching west and south of the Great Salt Lake, the Bonneville Salt Flats are known for their parched, blinding summertime dazzle. |
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Now the only way to fix the wells is to dive straight in, down 60 feet, to find the water they need to revive their parched and dying fields. |
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The land was no longer rich and green but desolate and parched, gaping with hard, dusty cracks splitting deep into the earth. |
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The rill was a parched ravine now, as though some convulsion of the earth had bled the region dry of its lifeblood. |
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On my first visit to the short grass plains of the southern Serengeti, they were as parched and dry as any desert. |
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Just as water renews the parched ground, so this living water renews the servant. |
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Touching her face, which was tan from being outside so much, and lips which were a bit parched from the sun, she furrowed her brow in thought. |
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A few kilometres from the last former Soviet army checkpoint, the tarmac ends and the journey to Ground Zero continues off-road, across the parched and endless steppe. |
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Phoenix, meanwhile, had parched in the heat, although one or two storms had snuck into the north Valley after sunset, they brought only humidity, no relief. |
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Ilea ruled the south icy realm, Aural the seas of the north, Inferna the parched lands of the west where fire spits from mountains, and Terrestra the forests of the East. |
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The Rocky Mountains in the west of the State are brown and arid during the summer months with sprinklings of coniferous trees on their parched slopes. |
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Most versions begin with the mortal archer Hou Yi, who shoots down a number of rogue suns which have been turning the earth into a parched wasteland thousands of years ago. |
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Environmentalists today generally prefer to limit roads and block new water projects, even in parched California. |
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Once you start eating a bunch of saltines, you're not only parched, but you've instantly got a ball of paste in your mouth that takes lots of chewing to ingest. |
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Endris Abtu often watches the huge flesh-eating carrion crows circling over the parched crop fields and distant hilltops around his village in south Wollo. |
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And a robin hopped across the parched ground, bill held open in the heat. |
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Fifty per cent of Madagascar's population earn less than one US dollar per year, scratching a living from the parched red earth or feeding themselves by fishing. |
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By high noon, her skin was gray, her lips parched, and her head throbbing. |
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He was gaunt and extremely pale, with parched lips and a beak-like nose. |
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We've had some rain this past couple of weeks but even so the earth is dry and parched still, inclined to ring like a hollow log as the hoe works. |
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I don't want to see my planters parched and my plants flaccid. |
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Some eastern Albertan farmers hold weather modifiers responsible for further disrupting the natural water cycles and dehydrating their already parched land. |
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Its arteries are choked with traffic, lungs corroded by pollutants, throat parched with thirst, and body labouring under a weight its heart cannot sustain. |
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Shrubs and small trees dot a parched landscape along the road from Turbat to the border. |
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Watershed researchers want to learn how far they travel when sudden summer thunderstorms send them rolling and tumbling along the dry stream beds of the parched Southwest. |
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Our Puritan fathers lived on parched corn, but they talked about God. |
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Beyond the asphalt the land was parched brown by the heat, and there were no trees, just stubby greasewood bushes and low grass, with an occasional spiky yucca or flat cactus. |
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It seems surprising that an island where so much moisture is continually exhaled from the circumfluent ocean should be parched with excessive drought. |
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As the fat, large drops fell from the heavens and hit the parched earth, the land that had once been in a drought rejoiced, and the angels were glad. |
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The kernels are dried in the sun, then parched, often by smoking on racks. |
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There it's cured and then either parched with dry heat or parboiled under pressure, depending on the processor's preferred technique, to gelatinize the starch. |
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Suddenly coming to himself, parched, he demanded a drink of water. |
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The early light promised a hot, dry southern day, the sky gleaming like hot metal, the summer smell of parched weeds making the air difficult to breathe. |
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It has highly variable landforms, that range from torrid plains, tropical islands, and a parched desert to the highest mountain range in the world. |
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Following this fence, the girls walk for nine weeks across the parched desert, depending mostly on scraps offered by people they meet along the way. |
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Alicia licked her lips, trying to moisten her parched mouth. |
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The floods are drained away, and there is nothing left to me but a parched dullness, more hatesome than ever for my dread of it is eternal. |
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The locals watched, amused, as the tourists parched in the sun, having neglected to apply sunscreen or bring water. |
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The scene of the crime was a long, narrow saltern, a desert-like tract of parched mud in the heart of Jim Neville Marine Preserve. |
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Alexa Chung is a big fan of Skin Food, the rich, fresh-scented cream that goes to work on your parched patches. |
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The Eastern Sahara is one of the hottest places on Earth, its parched sands moistened by a rain shower every few decades. |
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The principal drawback was that Mozambique Island was parched and infertile. |
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The parched lawn needed several sprayings before the grass looked green again. |
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I named this region Australia Felix, the better to distinguish it from the parched deserts of the interior country where we had wandered so unprofitably and so long. |
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It's now 14 days in the open boat, Salt sore eyes and dry parched throat, Hard tack rations now running so low, Our sail is adrift, we are too weak to row. |
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Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky, shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish. |
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Time was when this Bethesda too was curative, a sweet oasis in a parched and driven city. The day we went we found the fountain had been shut off. |
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We're parched, hon. Could you send up an ale from the cooler? |
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The Kenya Wildlife Service has moved ten white rhinoceroses from Lake Nakuru to Nairobi National Park, in part because the parched land can't support the large animals. |
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In Dinder, I saw amazing things, including carmine bee-eaters, birds of such a brilliant redness that they looked like rubies flashing across the parched yellow landscape. |
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Traditionally, New England is a soggier gardening atmosphere than the Midwest, where rain gardens are a bonanza for parched land that needs every speck of water. |
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