white heat

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white heat

intense heat or a very high temperature, characterized by emission of white light

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No references found			I could see that Montgomery had one of those slow, pertinacious tempers that will warm day after day to a white heat, and never again cool to forgiveness; and I saw too that this quarrel had been some time growing. The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H.G. View in context For, there was Bitzer, out of breath, his thin lips parted, his thin nostrils distended, his white eyelashes quivering, his colourless face more colourless than ever, as if he ran himself into a white heat, when other people ran themselves into a glow. Hard Times by Dickens, Charles View in context Three days, at white heat, completed his narrative; but when he had copied it carefully, in a large scrawl that was easy to read, he learned from a rhetoric he picked up in the library that there were such things as paragraphs and quotation marks. Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context			white diarrhea white dittany white dwarf white dwarf star White Dwarfs white elephant White Emigres White Émigrés White Eye white feldspar White Finns Adventure in Karelia 1921–22 white fir white fish white flag white flytrap white forked flame white frost white garnet White Goddess white gold white goods white graphite White Guards White Hall State Historic Site white hat hacker white heat White Hill, battle of the White Horde White Horse, Vale of the White House White House Ghost White Huns White Ii, Edward white infarct white iron white iron ore white iron pyrites White Kalmucks White Knight white label White Lady White Lake State Park White Lands white lauan white lead white lead putty white level white light white light hologram white lilac white lilacs			White gravy White grouse White grub White grub White grub White Guard White Guard (Finland) White Guards White gum White gum white hairy tongue white hairy tongue white hairy tongue White hake White hake White Hall Public Library White Hall State Historic Site White Hardwood White hat White hat White hat White hat hacker White hat hacker White hat hacker White Hat Management White Hat Security Arsenal White hats White hats White Hawk white head white heat White Heat (film) White Heat (film) white heather white heifer disease white hellebore white hellebore White Hermitage White Heron Motor Lodge White herring White Heterosexual Atheist Male White Hill Middle School White Hill, battle of the White Hill, battle of the White Hispanic White Hmong white hole White holes White Holland white honeysuckle White honeysuckle banksia White hoolet white hope white hopes White Horde white horehound white horehound white horehounds white horehounds white horehounds white horse

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