The iron door of the shot-heating furnace had been left open so that the air above the brick structure shimmered with a dreadful heat.

But that didn't matter, and more than one Horse Stealer jumped as the stone above the arch cracked in the dreadful heat.

The time before dawn was the only time offering respite from the dreadful heat and humidity.

Now that the dreadful heat was behind them, Daja happily took the lead, speeding through the many cracks in earth and stone.

But with the dreadful heat, the front of the building is no longer an option.

He sat huddled in a blanket in the chamber's dreadful heat while Senator Mason read his remarks.

Zhaneel settled herself on a new, cooler spot, and lay down again, letting the stone pull some of the dreadful heat out of her body.

Merely a bit out of sorts from this dreadful heat.

The appointed night arrived: a night of dreadful heat.

The attack in the desert, the escape, the dreadful heat of sun and sand.