They would have been a great deal more comfortable if they had not been in uniform, because it was a sweltering hot day.
This happened to be a sweltering hot day in the middle of the heat wave.
Is not it desperately urgent, in view of the sweltering summer and the likely outbreak of hepatitis, cholera and typhoid?
We just sat and sweltered in the sun, and there was nothing to do.
He goes on to describe the filthy smell of sweltering humanity which was quite overpowering even with the majority of the men sleeping on deck.
Twenty-four hours later, when the next warm spell of weather started they were operating at full blast so that everybody sweltered while they were subsiding again.
Everywhere he went tourists and pedestrians sweltered and sweated in the sultry, humid air.
One hundred or more prisoners were stuffed into each of the trains' boxcars, which were unventilated and sweltering in the tropical heat.
