Crossword-Solution: SEARINGS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

She was aware, too, that the Colonel knew as much, and his scientific pin-pricks and searings of that guileless and unprotected organ struck her as little short of cruel.

Shall man then despair? Is he not a sprout-land too, after never so many searings and witherings?[363] If you witness growth and luxuriance, it is all the same as if you grew luxuriantly.

Then came again the sensation of faintness--the sinking sensation of one about to die,--with the agony of his sword-wounds, which felt like the searings of a red-hot iron, when the hands of his fair attendants--soft, kind, and "tremulously gentle" hands they were--unbuttoned his doublet, untied his ruff, drew aside the breast of his lace shirt, and a handkerchief which he had thrust under it when first wounded, and which were now both soaked with blood.