cold

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He pauses, looks around at the silent, staring crowd, and then says: "I'll give you this baseball when you pry it from my COLD, DEAD, HANDS!"

From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2012

SURVEILLANCE, HOT AND COLD: Cold surveillance is secretive and meant to go unnoticed by the target.

From Time Magazine Archive

"But they should be five times as COLD, by the same rule—" "Just so!" cried the Red Queen.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert

I became, however, most thoroughly convinced that no hives were fit to be used, unless they furnished uncommon protection against extremes of heat and more especially of COLD.

From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine)

With porridgy muck to the knees, With sky that's a-pouring a flood, Sure the worst of our foes Are the pains and the woes Of the RAIN, the COLD, and the MUD.

From Rhymes of a Red Cross Man by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)