1 And should a gentleman be so ill bred as to indicate an interest in her, she must freeze him with a dignified but well-chosen reference to her dead husband.
2 If he was any other man in the world I could simply freeze up and order him off.
3 And the convicts had marched out too, to die in the twilight of the Confederacy, to freeze in the snow and sleet of that last campaign in Tennessee.
4 Don't freeze me, please, Miz Wilkes.
5 The dead man was frozen through, 'just as stiff as a dressed turkey you hang out to freeze,' Jake said.
6 In summer the stench of the warm lard would be nauseating, and in winter the cans would all but freeze to his naked little fingers in the unheated cellar.
7 The winter came, and the place where he worked was a dark, unheated cellar, where you could see your breath all day, and where your fingers sometimes tried to freeze.
8 It came on to freeze with a North wind blowing; the snow fell small and fine like hoar frost, and our shields were coated thick with rime.
9 And that,' said Rosa Dartle, 'is so strong a claim, preferred by one so infamous, that if I had any feeling in my breast but scorn and abhorrence of you, it would freeze it up.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE 10 I don't think that I am a coward, Watson, but that sound seemed to freeze my very blood.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ... 11 I said to myself, 'The moon is bright: it is going to freeze.'
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—THE MAN WITH THE BELL 12 We have travelled fast," said she; "but it is freezingly cold.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 13 Now all that mattered was food enough to keep off starvation, clothing enough to prevent freezing and a roof overhead which did not leak too much.
14 For three minutes or more he was seen swimming like a dog, throwing his long arms straight out before him, and by turns revealing his brawny shoulders through the freezing foam.
15 It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.