red-hot poker

Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.

In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.

Beginners must be warned against mistaking the edges of cells, or particles which have retained the red stain, for bacilli.

Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.

“You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.

Ripperda's eye fell upon the mantle,—it was discoloured a dark red in many places, he nodded his head, and the man withdrew.