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

Lavretsky drew himself up, and rose cold and pale with ecstasy.

From A House of Gentlefolk by Garnett, Constance

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

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