And then she was in Africa, beside the bed of Artois, ministering to him in the torrid heat, driving away the flies from his white face. What had been done in the Garden of Paradise while she had been in exile? She turned suddenly sick. Her body felt ashamed, defiled. A shutter seemed to be sharply drawn across her eyes, blotting out life. Her head was full of sealike noises. Presently, from among these noises, one detached itself, pushed itself, as it were, forward to attract forcibly her attention--the sound of a boy's voice. "Signora!英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
It was late when he left her. It was getting to be more than a passing whim with Arobin to see her and be with her. He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature's requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
In torrid heats of late July, In March, beneath the bitter bise, He book-hunts while the loungers fly, - He book-hunts, though December freeze; In breeches baggy at the knees, And heedless of the public jeers, For these, for these, he hoards his fees, - Aldines, Bodonis, Elzevirs.英文原著 · 《Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations》
Length -- 9 to 10 inches. About the size of the robin. Male and Female -- Gray above; wings and wedge-shaped; tail brownish; upper wing feathers tipped with white; outer tail quills white, conspicuous in flight; chin white; underneath light gray, shading to whitish. Range -- Peculiar to torrid and temperate zones of two Americas. Migrations -- No fixed migrations: usually resident where seen.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
Add to these a little love and counterplotting, and scatter everywhere throughout the maze a trail of tropical dollars--dollars warmed no more by the torrid sun than by the hot palms of the scouts of Fortune--and, after all, here seems to be Life, itself, with talk enough to weary the most garrulous of Walruses.英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
The unfortunate position in which Kenneth found himself by the Jacobite proclivities of his ancestors, and especially those of his father, appears to have made a deep impression upon his mind, and to have induced him to be more cautious in supporting a cause which seemed certain to land him in final and utter ruin. But though he personally held aloof, several of the clan joined the Prince, mostly under George, third Earl of Cromarty, and a few under John Mackenzie, III. of Torridon.英文原著 · 《History Of The Mackenzies》
Everyone in New York knows about our torrid affair.美剧 · 《Suits》
One wild night of torrid lovemaking That soothes my soul and inflames my loins.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》