Careful Words

hot (n.)

hot (adv.)

hot (adj.)

For in my youth I never did apply

Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.

Where eldest Night

And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold

Eternal anarchy amidst the noise

Of endless wars, and by confusion stand;

For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce,

Strive here for mast'ry.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 894.

  You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.

Publius Syrus (42 b c): Maxim 262.

And there was mounting in hot haste.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 25.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot

That it do singe yourself.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.

  Clo.  Yes, by Saint Anne, and ginger shall be hot i' the mouth too.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 3.

  The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.