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

It sank in sobs of melting compassion; it implored pity and sympathy in words of thrilling entreaty; and then it rose, cold and calm, in sounds of withering derision and implacable hate.

From Trifles for the Christmas Holidays by Armstrong, H. S.

He also took much pleasure in walking beside the Thames in the moonlight, "to hear the sound and echo of the trumpets," regardless of the evening dews which rose cold and damp along the river.

From The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History by Kingsley, Rose Georgina

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.

The latter part of May and nearly all June, rose cold or June cold is prevalent.

From The Voice Its Production, Care and Preservation by Miller, Frank E.