rose cold

Example Sentences

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This time while he was there, it was like sitting on a beach enjoying the sun while the tide rose cold around his ankles.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

But the clerk of the weather was not going to have anything so incongruous as all that, and the 29th rose cold and grey—one of those summer days which are a premonition of autumn.

From The Privet Hedge by Buckrose, J. E.

Across the valley, and apparently quite neighborly and close at hand, the giant form of the Jungfrau rose cold and white into the clear sky, beyond a gateway in the nearer highlands.

From A Tramp Abroad — Volume 05 by Twain, Mark

We rose cold and cramped at daylight, and without waiting to make ready any coffee, saddled our beasts and rode away.

From The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Belt, Thomas

Far away, whether of clouds or hills I could not yet tell, rose cold towers and pinnacles into the last darkness of night.

From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by De la Mare, Walter