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

The great marble pillars rose cold and magnificent in four stately rows, on all sides of the high-vaulted apartment.

From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by Davis, William Stearns

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.

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.

Nevil's voice rose, cold and commanding, questioning this as any other derelict haled before him.

From Sir Mortimer by Johnston, Mary