Its chillnessand the combat of its current braced his nerves and cleared his brain.
She knew that the warmth of fire to dry the deadly dampness in the air, the warmth of wine to quicken the chillness and the torpor of the reviving life, were what were wanted beyond all other things.
It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to the trembling heart.
I confess, to my shame, that I was so overcome by this jumble of nonsense that a chillness came over me, and, in spite of all my efforts to shake off the impression it had made, I fell into a faint.
So a chillness down the back is first attended to in ague-fits, though the disease perhaps commences with the torpor and consequent coldness of some internal viscus.
I have many times seen this disease, but the patients were too young, or too far advanced, to inform me, whether they had chillness succeeded by heat at its onset.
It may well be conceived what an icy chillness these words distilled round the heart of every one present.
Now she was conscious of it, of the first slight imperceptible chillness of feeling, even as she had been conscious of what no other eyes than hers saw; the first faint change in her own beauty like the film of breath on a mirror.
It is impossible to describe the intensity with which Helen listened to this wild, dark legend, crouching closer and closer to the chimney corner, while the chillness of superstitious terror quenched the burning fire-rose on her cheek.
It amused her to see the timid recoil, the presumptuous shrink, the confident wither into humiliation, before the chillness of her smile, the terror of her few cold softly-spoken words.
She looked round it with a little sigh; with the same sense of chillness and sadness.
I now felt the chillness of the midnight hour, and the fatigue of the long journey, with double force, and envied the servant and children, who had been sleeping ever since we left Peterborough.
In fact, the repast over, a chillness radiated from the two lady passengers that no pine boughs brought in by Yuba Bill and cast as a sacrifice upon the hearth could wholly overcome.
A new fear seized his heart, a numbing chillness crept through his body, and he struggled to free himself, but in vain.
The stream gradually became deeper, until the foremost horse was wading to the belly, labouring and snorting from the chillness and oppression upon his chest.
Suddenly she heard a sigh, and a rustling at her ear; and she felt an icy chillness breathing on her.
Thy chillness comes upon my spirit like the keen ice-wind; it freezes while it withers.
The chillness of the night was in my favour, since it kept the other Nuns confined to their Cells.
It emitted no heat: On the contrary, the extreme chillness of the place seemed to augment with every moment.
As Lorenzo advanced, He felt a piercing chillness spread itself through his veins.
As I listened to the mournful hollow sound, and heard it die away in the wind, I felt a sudden chillness spread itself over my body.
But the more human aspects of the situation were paramount in the gray chillness of a bleak May dawn.
And now she was being driven to exile and the chillness of secret nuptials.
A damp chillness came over her; her sight became confused; she knew not what had passed, or where she was, yet the groans of the wounded person still vibrated on her heart.
At this conjecture, a sudden chillness ran through her frame; she looked fearfully upon the duskiness of her chamber, and the dead silence, that prevailed there, heightened to her fancy its gloomy aspect.
A chillness spread over his whole frame; he sank back on a seat, and remained motionless; but the beautiful and adorable creature soothed him with kind words, till he again gathered courage to speak.
A certain chillness of temper aiding, her resolve had been kept.
The stillness of the spot allayed the irritation of his frame, and the dewy chillness cooled the fever of his brow.
He took her little hand into his own with a pang of fear and grief; but instead of the mortal chillness of death he felt the pleasant warmth and moisture of life.
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