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As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.

Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.

Even the hot Jewish women I mentioned above did something a bit more “intellectual” than pageantry: acting.

There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.

In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.

“You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.

Sometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.

Many of their cannon balls that fell far short of us, were collected and returned to them with powerful effect.

He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.