cold creeps
Example Sentences
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When I got to thinking what likely might a-happened if I’d come along them five minutes sooner, Miss, I had cold creeps crawling all up and down the spine of my back!”
From Santa Fé's Partner Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier
For the night-time, when the cold creeps down from the high peaks, you should provide yourself with a suit of very heavy underwear and an extra sweater or a buckskin shirt.
From The Mountains by Stewart Edward White
"But just think how the cold creeps will chase up and down the spinal column of that miserable sneak of a hobo when he glimpses this article," chuckled Thad.
From The Chums of Scranton High out for the Pennant by Donald Ferguson
I thought of the tiny black-and-silver spider crawling across the remembered silver frame, and for some reason it gave me the cold creeps.
From No Great Magic by Fritz Leiber
When the tubes conk out, the fuel runs down, The cold creeps in to where I lie.
From The Man Who Staked the Stars by Charles Dye
