In this way, it would seem inevitable that the surface waters of the northern and southern frigid zones must, sooner or later, find their way to the bottom of the rest of the ocean; and there accumulate to a thickness dependent on the rate at which they absorb heat from the crust of the earth below, and from the surface water above.

" <Cold, frigid.>

A blacksmith is beating iron; does the iron grow cold or frigid?

Would you speak of a morning as bitterly cold or bitterly frigid?

Does the word frigid carry for you a geographical suggestion (to the frigid zone)?

Does the word frigid carry for you a geographical suggestion (to the frigid zone)?

She did lend, and she lent without spoken protest, but with frigid bitterness.

"I don't see that it matters to anybody but me," she said, after another pause, with a sort of frigid and disdainful nonchalance.

" When they met at the table Mrs. Hamilton's manner toward Ben was decidedly frigid, as Conrad and his mother saw, much to their satisfaction.

It contains wit, character, passion, plot, conversations full of spirit and insight, letters sparkling with unstrained humanity; and if the death of the heroine be somewhat frigid and artificial, the last days of the hero strike the only note of what we now call Byronism, between the Elizabethans and Byron himself.

The frigid and florid Dante memorial, which was unveiled in 1865 on the six hundredth anniversary of the poet's birthday, looks gloomily upon what once was a scene of splendour and animation, for in 1469

In 1878, however, it was decided that further exposure might be injurious, and so the statue was moved here to its frigid niche and a replica in marble afterwards set up in its place.

Nothing could have impressed us so forcibly as did the frigid silence that characterised the company.

So frigid was the atmosphere that the first step taken from the heated hotel hall into the outer air felt like putting one's face against an iceberg.

And when frost holds the high-standing city in its frigid grasp the extreme cold forbids any idea of coquetry, and thickly lined boots with cloth uppersa species of foot-gear that in grace of outline is decidedly suggestive of "arctics"become the only comfortable wear.

In the pretty sitting-room the coverings to-day are a reproduction of the same pale blue satin that draped the furniture in the days when queens preferred the snug seclusion of those dainty rooms overlooking the dank inner courtyard to the frigid grandeur of their State chambers.

DEAR MADAM,I am sitting down, in no cheerful solitude, to write a narrative, which would once have affected you with tenderness and sorrow, but which you will, perhaps, pass over now with a careless glance of frigid indifference.

The artist presented his card to Delwood, assuming the same frigid manner which had become his nature.

Spike Walters saw them comingsaw their headlights splitting the frigid night.

The countess received him ceremoniously, and maintained the conversation in frigid tones.

'Have you no coal?' he said, and his frigid eye pierced me.

In two minutes they were in the hold of the refrigerator-ship, gathering the frost from the frigid cooling-pipes and snowballing each other, while the boat-keeper outside of the three-eighth-inch steel plating was fanning himself with his hat, almost dizzy from the quivering heat-waves that danced before his eyes.

My only adult relation was my stepmother, who was as frigid as ever towards me.

It was strikinglyeven amusinglyfree from that frigid dignity and arrogant reserve for which as a nation we are so justly famed.

His manner was frigid and pompous, and his rhetorical devices were mechanical.