His supple brown skin hadn't yet lost their baby ripples, streaks of orange and red sunstrokes. ❋ Megan Arkenberg (2008)
We face the kind of temperatures everyday at which California reports a 100 deaths due to sunstrokes. ❋ Unknown (2006)
A high degree of moisture in the air favors sunstrokes, but it is a curious fact that sunstroke is much more frequent in certain localities, and in special years than at other places and times with identical climatic conditions. ❋ Kenelm Winslow (N/A)
This heated blood striking the vital organs accounts for the fact that on those excessively hot days, when there are many sunstrokes, most of them are among men who not only habitually take alcohol, but who are under the influence of alcohol at the time. ❋ Winfield Scott Hall (N/A)
It's an island that ordinarily belongs somewhere in the tropic zone -- real sultry weather, sunstrokes and all that. ❋ Hugh Lofting (1916)
After Paddy Muskrat and his wife talked to her about sunstrokes, the ❋ Arthur Scott Bailey (1913)
And Buster's house was so warm that three of his guests almost had sunstrokes -- and had to be helped home. ❋ Arthur Scott Bailey (1913)
I do not have -- ah -- sunstrokes and colds and headaches here is that you take pains to see that I am protected against their causes. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
In France you have much sun and some rain; in Italy you have hot winds and cold winds; in Scotland and Ireland you have rain, either thick or thin; in America you have hells of heat and cold, and in the Tropics you have sunstrokes varied by thunderbolts. ❋ Unknown (1905)
The Priory excuses him on the ground that his intellectuals are not strong -- he has spent most of his life in Africa, and there taken a couple of sunstrokes. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
He tried to soothe her by explaining what he believed to be the combined causes of his breakdown: first the intense heat, which had made his stay in Paris very trying; the fatigue he had undergone there; and lastly the weakness supervening after the loss of appetite, also due to the abnormal heat, which was causing several sunstrokes every day, even in England. ❋ Hamerton, Philip G (1896)
They were always bruising their feet, wounding their hands, getting sunstrokes, and whiltlows, and sprains, and disabling themselves in some way. ❋ Unknown (1891)
A charming lady had noticed this from the verandah above, and ran down in some alarm, fearing that these young Nelsons had got sunstrokes. ❋ Frederick Spencer Hamilton (1892)
Just a few instructions to Mrs. Lobjoit, and a word or two of caution to Gerry not to fall over cliffs, or to get run over at level-crossings or get sunstrokes, or get cold, etc., and she would fall back on her own society and think .... ❋ William Frend De Morgan (1878)
There will be no hay fever or prickly-heat; neither will there be sunstrokes nor any of the horrors of the Eastern and Southern summer. ❋ Charles Warren Stoddard (1876)
Poor Rosamond remembered having heard of the fatal effects of sunstrokes -- effects which have sometimes revealed themselves long after the occurrence of the calamity that caused them; and she told herself that the change in George Jernam's nature must needs be the result of such a calamity. ❋ Unknown (1875)
He would keep his eye on the glasses, to prevent sunstrokes. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)
"Do you think I should be doing my duty as your guardian if I took you right away into a savage country, to catch fevers and sunstrokes, and run risks of being crushed by elephants, bitten by poisonous reptiles, swallowed by crocodiles, or to form a lunch for a fastidious tiger tired of blacks?" ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
