"Hot spell" Quotes from Famous Books
... put into type, the Havasupai village has been swept nearly out of existence by a flood. The winter of agog-igto saw a large fall of snow on the plateau, which, melting suddenly during a hot spell in January, rushed down the Canyon in a body, destroyed the school, agent's house, and took away nearly all the hawas, fields, and orchards of the Indians. This catastrophe has several times occurred to them (according ... — The Grand Canyon of Arizona: How to See It, • George Wharton James
... it, partner, an' his name was sure Oscar—Oscar Gleeb, 'cause he got mad as hops when I asked him, an' told me that wasn't any o' my business. But we sure did have a nice hot spell, ... — Eagles of the Sky - With Jack Ralston Along the Air Lanes • Ambrose Newcomb |