They wanted to skate, but they were worried that the gelid pond was not quite ready. From LearnThat.org.
To have less of the gelid, torpid, tortoise-like existence. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
His thoughts were gelid with a kind of existential morbidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Kaisho]
These luminous orbs cast a gelid, submarine light of their own. From Wordnik.com. [Conan of Cimmeria]
It had a gelid thickness, as if he were walking through cold broth. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Its scores of paddle legs trembled in vain effort against the gelid water. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Gorged, the gelid worm would doubtless slumber through the daylight hours. From Wordnik.com. [Conan of Cimmeria]
The English word "gelid" is derived from the Latin word "gelidus" (extremely. From Wordnik.com. [OCTools] Reference
THE air was gelid against her, but if she leaned on it, it gave way all too easily. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Destiny]
It was a gelid 12 degrees, hardly weather to view public art, but I can be contrarian. From Wordnik.com. [Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: The Otterness Blizzard] Reference
But I, for one, believe the Whisperers are sincere in their campaign against gelid squamousness. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
His face had been gelid as a glacier throughout the semester, but now, I thought I saw him smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Parable of the Spider] Reference
They looked like a mass of giant maggots slowly wiggling their way forward into the gelid sediment. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
Not the kind that try to reheat those gelid slices on you and insist there's "nothing more coming outta the oven.". From Wordnik.com. [I Am Available for Your Money Show] Reference
So it is with Closer, a quiet, gelid, murmuring and deeply uninvolving movie, an utter pleasure to watch-and then forget. From Wordnik.com. [Upmarket, Tastefully Dirty And Deeply Uninvolving] Reference
Beside these were the ornate armors of sea cucumbers, urchins, anemone and starfish from the gelid waters of Puget Sound. From Wordnik.com. [Another Roadside Attraction]
Tiny moons, a quartet of them, circled in a gelid minuet against the chevrons of ammonia-storms that banded the gas giant. From Wordnik.com. [Cities In Flight]
You don't need to see the fin, count the teeth, stare into the gelid, dead eye to know how close you just came to disaster. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: Worldbuilding] Reference
But Lucas doesn't care about his script, under which gelid wodge of pork fat he immures the cast, especially Natalie Portman. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
Even as she talked she swiveled the drum around, kicked the easy-off plug, and began dumping the gelid contents into the hole. From Wordnik.com. [Deathworld] Reference
Vain were the lunar rays or gelid streams to cool my body's fever, whilst my mind whirls in perpetual round and does not know rest. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from the Hindu Dramatists] Reference
Under a grey sky, glooming to purple, the gelid water writhed nakedly. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference
Yes, the gelid wind you feel on your spine is the Cold War coming back. From Wordnik.com. [Gizmodo] Reference
And deeper we clutch through the gelid gloom where never a sunbeam shines. From Wordnik.com. [The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses] Reference
The rays of the Sun made its gelid walls glitter with diamonds and colotird fiones. From Wordnik.com. [Gaudia poetica, Lat., Angl. et Gall. lingua composita [by F. Calvert.].] Reference
The gelid mountains, that to rain condensed Thefe vapours in continual current draw. From Wordnik.com. [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference
And the gelid air sweeping down from the high places submerged him as if with a flood of icy water. From Wordnik.com. [The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range] Reference
Opposite, a single arc-lamp on the corner of Cypress Street cast a white, cheerless light on the gelid pavement. From Wordnik.com. [Midnight] Reference
The weather is gelid on a recent Thursday night -- so uninviting that it's hard to imagine anyone venturing out. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary.com Word of the Day] Reference
The house was silent, filled with a gelid, wintery hush even as lilac and dogwood leaves brushed darkly against the windowpanes. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary.com Word of the Day] Reference
Borne along the waters, the shouts and the hymns of swarming thousands from the land shook, like a blast, the gelid air of the Wolf month. From Wordnik.com. [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference
405 NYMPHS! you first taught the gelid wave to rise. From Wordnik.com. [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference
" Kudra buttoned her vest against the first blown drops of gelid rain. From Wordnik.com. [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference
I breathed in the gelid air. From Wordnik.com. [Borrowed Finery, A Memoir]
'Tis not for thofe, whom gelid Ikies embrace, "250. From Wordnik.com. [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference
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