Tom would be parched.

Tom would've been parched.

Swallows fill the parchment of the sky with signatures in honor of the good weather.

When the day broke, the cold was intense, and the sharp north wind was parching everything.

She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her parched grain. She ate, was satisfied, and left some of it. When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, "Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don’t reproach her. Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it. Let her glean, and don’t rebuke her."

His face was lean and haggard, and his brown parchment-like skin was drawn tightly over the projecting bones.

You didn't tell me what you wrote on the parchment.

Tom beat me at Parcheesi.

The Southwest is the hottest and driest region in the United States. Climate changes pose challenges for an already parched region that is expected to get hotter and, in its southern half, significantly drier. Increased heat and changes to rain and snowpack will send ripple effects throughout the region and its critical agriculture sector.

Sweet life from mortals fled; they drooped and died. / Fierce Sirius scorched the fields, and herbs and grain / were parched, and food the wasting crops denied.