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

But the clerk of the weather was not going to have anything so incongruous as all that, and the 29th rose cold and grey—one of those summer days which are a premonition of autumn.

From The Privet Hedge by Buckrose, J. E.

Nevil's voice rose, cold and commanding, questioning this as any other derelict haled before him.

From Sir Mortimer by Johnston, Mary

Out of the ocean of cloud, the great peaks of Hood and St. Helens rose, cold and white, like icebergs on an Arctic sea.

From The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by Lyman, William Denison