cold creeps
Example Sentences
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In subterranean corridors cold creeps upon the central vaults of flame.
From The Masque of the Elements by Herman George Scheffauer
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
Then the cold creeps slowly down from the Arctic regions, and begins to reduce the variety.
From The Story of Evolution by Joseph McCabe
The very name of Exeter gave the members of presbytery the cold creeps.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
They also broke through the side window with their "Tip-hist-toe" signal that always gives the girls cold creeps even in daytime.
From Phyllis by Percy D. Johnson
