1 To-night the pressure of accumulated misgivings sent the scale drooping toward despair, and her indifference was the more chilling after the flush of joy into which she had plunged him by dismissing Denis Eady.
2 The small cloud on the horizon had blown up swiftly into a large, sullen storm cloud and it was as though a faint, chilling wind blew from it.
3 But the merriment of the Fontaine boys, a chilling merriment that night, was in his little dancing eyes as he gulped down the whisky she brought him.
4 There was an orgy of grabbing and over all there was a cold cynicism about open theft in high places that was chilling to contemplate.
5 In still other places men were engaged in cutting up the carcasses that had been through the chilling rooms.
6 In the end, as with the hogs, the finished beef was run into the chilling room, to hang its appointed time.
7 There were those who worked in the chilling rooms, and whose special disease was rheumatism; the time limit that a man could work in the chilling rooms was said to be five years.
8 He was enveloped in a cloak that might have been intended as a protection from the chilling damps of the woods, but which served equally well as a mantle to conceal his person.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 9 It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness of the barren waste, the chilling wind, and the darkling sky.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall 10 She swoons away with loss of blood; chilling in death her eyes swoon away; the once lustrous colour leaves her face.
11 She drew aside without speaking, and Mattie and Ethan passed into the kitchen, which had the deadly chill of a vault after the dry cold of the night.
12 At times, looking at Zeena's shut face, he felt the chill of such forebodings.
13 The name threw a chill between them, and they stood a moment looking sideways at each other before Mattie said with a shy laugh.
14 He fell asleep, and when he woke the chill of the winter dawn was in the room.
15 Now that the sun was setting in a welter of crimson behind the hills across the Flint River, the warmth of the April day was ebbing into a faint but balmy chill.