64 examples of ice-cold in sentences

When she had slaked her thirst at its little ice-cold chalice, she raised her head with a low exclamation of rapture.

Her fingers, already cold when she started, went numb; they were at all times either in pits and pockets of snow or gripping the rough stone that was ice-cold.

And sorrow for her his shame's regret Into humility wept; He knelt and he kissed the footprints wet, And the track by her thin robe swept; He sat in her chair, all ice-cold yet, And moaned until he slept.

Following are a few selected lines to show the spirit of the poem: The hail flew in showers about me; and there I heard only The roar of the sea, ice-cold waves, and the song of the swan; For pastime the gannets' cry served me; the kittiwakes' chatter For laughter of men; and for mead drink the call of the sea mews.

Then from Hood river, an ice-cold stream, twenty-two miles into "The Dalles," where the steamer may be taken for the return trip.

LOWELL'S ESTIMATE, Problem of terrestrial temperature Ice under recent lava Tropical oceans ice-cold at bottom Earth's surface-heat all from the sun Absolute zero of temperature Complex problem of planetary temperatures Mr. Lowell's investigation of the problem Abstract of Mr. Lowell's paper Critical remarks on Mr. Lowell's paper.

Another fact that points in the same direction is the existence over the whole floor of the deepest oceans of ice-cold water, which, originating in the polar seas, owing to its greater density sinks and creeps slowly along the ocean bottom to the depths of the Atlantic and Pacific, and is not perceptibly warmed by the internal heat of the earth.

It is John's turn for the tumbler next, and as he emerges from the long, ice-cold, satisfying drink he declares his firm intention, his unalterable resolve, never to drink anything but white wine again in this world.

I approached; I put my hand on his forehead ... ice-cold dead.

Its limits were as distinctly marked by its Creator as if it had been a living intelligence sent forth to put a belt of desolation round the world; and, although the edge of devastation was not five hundred yards from the rock behind which the hunters were stationed, only a few drops of ice-cold rain fell upon them.

Without family or fatherland, I have written my translation in dark, ice-cold garrets, on chandlers' wrappers, snuff papers, the backs of playing cards!

He dropped through space and landedin a vat of ice-cold water.

At the last warning an ice-cold hand touched him, and Bruno fell dead in the banquet hall.

The current was ice-cold and very swift, and as the bed was covered with loose stones, it required the greatest care to stand upright.

Ice-cold 'ighballs.

The water, ice-cold and clear, gushes out of a crevice in the rock, and with the joy of wandering Israelites we threw ourselves on the ground, basked in the glorious mountain air, and shouted for the tiffin basket.

This jumping into ice-cold water may do for persons in the highest health, perhaps, but the invalid will have nothing to do with this sort.

But Clark suddenly blackened his face with gunpowder, gave the war-whoop, and sprang forwards boldly into the ice-cold water, wading out straight towards the point at which they were aiming; and the men followed him, one after another, without a word.

No one knows what capacities he possesses for suffering and doing until an opportunity occurs to bring them into play; any more than he imagines when looking into a perfectly smooth pond with a mirror-like surface, that it can tumble and toss and rush from rock to rock, or leap as high into the air as a fountain;any more than in ice-cold water he suspects latent warmth.

Nevertheless, it certainly gave me a strange turn when ice-cold steel was laid across my neck-bone.

CRUSTS.Beat together very thoroughly one cupful of ice-cold milk, and one cupful of Graham flour.

Lay in ice-cold salted water for an hour.

Or, in the South Island, they should be watched in the Alps as, milky or green-tinted, their ice-cold currents race through the gorges.

When, as time went on, gold was found high up the streams amongst the ice-cold rivers and bleak tussock-covered mountains of the interior, the hardships endured by the gold-seekers were often very great.

Beautiful Sara still had the silver basin in her right hand, while the Rabbi held her left, and she felt that his fingers were ice-cold, and that his arm was trembling; but still she went on with him in silence, perhaps because she had become accustomed to obey her husband blindly and unquestioninglyperhaps, too, because her lips were mute with fear and anxiety.

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