torridity

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To-morrow I shall drive to breakfast, seeing Paris continuously unfolding, prospect after prospect, green swards, white buildings, villas engarlanded; to-day I drive to breakfast through the white torridities of Rue Blanche.

From Memoirs of My Dead Life by Moore, George (George Augustus)

Those Purgatorial ardencies for the gentle suggestion of torment to thin shades can have little in common with these perspiration-compelling torridities.

From Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis by Cooke, George Willis