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

It rose cold and white against the moon, at the end of a nettle-grown lane.

From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Across the valley, and apparently quite neighborly and close at hand, the giant form of the Jungfrau rose cold and white into the clear sky, beyond a gateway in the nearer highlands.

From A Tramp Abroad — Volume 05 by Twain, Mark

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

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.