| 1. | Let them scorch and blister out of my chants when you are gone. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | To scorch your face, and to disfigure you. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | On our side the fire had done no more than scorch the nearer trees it had failed to secure its footing. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 4. | "Because I am scorched all over, Captain Ahab," answered Perth, resting for a moment on his hammer "I am past scorching not easily can'st thou scorch a scar.. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 5. | And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. - from The King James Bible |
| 6. | And recently did a woman seize upon her child that was coming unto me "Take the children away," cried she, "such eyes scorch children's souls.. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |