From April until July, a feverish white-hot sun bakes the scorched land and the people like a demonic torch.

A scorched land began to reconstitute itself, a place of burned-out stumps and fallen branches and, here and there, heaped-up bones.

The scent of life was a balm after the memory of scorched land.

Their name derived probably from the Proto-Polish word lęda, or "scorched land".

Houyi, too, wanted to settle this crisis peacefully, but a single glance at the scorched land was enough to convince him that desperate measures were needed.

The scorched land still feels like a rugged frontier with nonstop wind and king-cab pickup trucks hauling rusted washing machines and groceries.

Night falls like a balm on the scorched land, and the clear sky allows the stars to twinkle brightly.

If they were indeed the amphibian race he judged them to be, they would not choose willingly a long excursion over this scorched land.

A brilliant sun seared down upon the scorched land, a pitilessly revealing sun in the light of which nothing could hide.

That summer of 1992, Mr. Gravesen began transforming the scorched land into fields of eggplants, potatoes, corn, tomatoes and blueberries.