What time is it, M'seur?" A clammy chill passed over Howland as he read the time.

And against it a long time I leant my clammy brow, a sob aching in my poor throat, and she all mixed up in my head with the suspended hushed night, and with the elfin things in the air that made the silence so musically a-sound to the vacant ear-drum, and with the dripping splash in the cave.

The Goslings skulked; but their wise mamma, She hissed, and screamed, till the Lambs cried, "Ba-a!" When up from his straw sprang the gaping Calf, With a gawky leap and a clammy laugh.

"Your hand upon it!" Subduing his repugnance and apprehension by a strong effort, Alexander laid his hand within the spectre's clammy paw.

Cold, and cruel, and remorseless, the sea beat up, drenching them to the skin continually with, its clammy spray; and the storm shrieked round them pitilessly, and flung about the wet hair on Eric's bare head, and forced him to plant himself firmly, lest the rage of the gusts should hurl them from their narrow resting-place.

With a swiftness which would have been incredible to any one who didn't know the Moor, the damp clammy vapour was settling down, blotting out everything in its grey haze.