Not only did the intensity of the cold increase, but everything, even to the human system, seemed to be gradually congealing, and preparing to become converted into receptacles for frost.

Why was crystal so named? Because it was probably the first substance ever noticed as occurring in a regular form, and the ancients believing it to be water permanently congealed by extreme cold, from its transparency, called it Krustallos, signifying ice; but in time the word became used without attention being paid to its original meaning, and was applied to all the regular figures observed in minerals.

He asked them who they were, and as they lifted up their heads for astonishment, and felt the cold doubly congeal them, they dashed their heads against one another for hate and fury.

It had congealed thickly on his cheek and neck and had soaked the top of his coat.

'Sich doin's in my house,' says I, 'I am totilly congealed.'"

No; we are assured that these fiery mists are formed by the collision of misguided orbs; and we are even askedor, at least we were askedto believe that this process must go on until all systems are agglomerated in one orb, to be ultimately congealed into stone.

They drank lemonade from a fine glass pitcher that had come as a gratuitous mark of esteem from the tea merchant patronized by the hostess; and they congealed themselves pleasantly with vanilla ice-cream eaten from dishes of excellent pressed glass that had come one by one as the Robinson family consumed its baking powder.