A searing wind blew dunes around the equatorial zone; mountainous highlands sloped gradu- ally to the polar seas.

Days of baking sun and searing winds, nights of bone-shaking cold.

Behind them, the wreckage of the New Republican home fleet scattered like ashes on a searing hot wind.

A searing hot wind blew into the chamber and extinguished all the light.

She felt his arms closing her off from the searing wind.

And then a blade flashed in the sunlight and the searing wind and drove in again and again.

For a few endless moments, Tally felt only relief to have escaped the searing wind, the thundering machine, the blistering heat of the firestorm.

Hot, searing wind blasted across the open space between the two armies, and Memyl's defenses crumbled as Tireas's flood rose into the sky and turned once again to darkness.

The searing wind of the sea came back to him, the lights flashing in his face.

Beneath him, below the cloud plain, lay Ariel's surface, a pressure-cooked caldron of searing hot winds and greenhouse gases.