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Example sentences for "icily"

Lexicographically close words:
ichthyology; ichthyosauri; ici; icicle; icicles; iciness; icing; icings; ick; ickle
  1. But at the roulette table he paused and stared at the wheel with his gray eyes icily blazing.

  2. His eyes gained a little respect as they rested on Keane's light gray, icily calm eyes.

  3. Between the stone blocks roofing us in oozed drops of moisture, and the air was at once damp and icily cold.

  4. Then a sensation of intense coldness came; it was as though some icily cold creature fanned me with its wings!

  5. This man's manner was icily formal toward those he deemed his inferiors, icily polite toward those whom he acknowledged his equals.

  6. Dover, and surely she would not be so icily cold; surely--surely he could get her to melt.

  7. How could so voluptuous looking a creature be so icily cold?

  8. After the meeting in the corridor of the Convention Hall, when the barrier had risen, so icily cold, between them, she had been unable to blame him.

  9. He felt his blood beat to his temples; then instantly he became icily cool and tense in every nerve.

  10. He was very tired, very foot-sore, and very thirsty; he was absolutely without the most elementary niceness in his food requirements, but in this matter of drink he did not mind how much trouble he spent so that he got his water icily cold.

  11. And if she stared icily it did not look icy at all, because her eyes, lovely to begin with, had the added loveliness of very long, soft, dark eyelashes.

  12. Amongst those I particularly disliked were Whewell and Thirlwall--so icily cold were their manners.

  13. I saw her shaking hands with Grayle and heard him icily asking her to wait while he telephoned for a cab.

  14. I could soon throw you the rope, but the waters are icily cold, and might make you too helpless to swim.

  15. Then a black veil seemed to fall over my head, an iron ring gripped my brow; the sockets of my eyes went icily cold; I could see nothing but myself, hear nothing but vague, unintelligible sounds.

  16. XIV The next day I was in a state of gloomy despair; Edmee was icily cold; M.

  17. Oh, yes, there was conscience enough in the icily handsome face among the instructors.

  18. Even when Miss Thorne was there it seemed lonesome, perhaps because she was such a slender little woman and so icily quiet.

  19. I carried a little girl of about four years old; her shoes and stockings had been lost in the hurry of collecting the rugs and bedclothes, and her uncovered feet were icily cold.

  20. The tall Rogan teetered up to the prisoners on his gangling legs, and stared icily at them.

  21. I warn you to speak true," said the leader, suddenly removing his gaze from the specimen motor and staring icily down at Dex.

  22. My heart leapt wildly in my breast, then seemed to suspend its pulsations and to grow icily cold.

  23. The wind was blowing up icily through the bottom, and I had just been awakened by the distant deep barking roar of one of the great sand-coloured brutes.

  24. He had taken her hand, had tried to tell her all a loving heart could find to say; but how sharply, how icily had he been repulsed, with what an air of intolerable scorn had she turned her back upon him!

  25. McPherson would only stand at salute, frigidly respectful, but as icily impenetrable.

  26. He flushed to his temples at the contrast with the smaller cut beside it--the face of Pauline, high and fine icily beautiful as always in her New York days when her features were in repose.

  27. A feeling of cold chilled her skin, trickled icily in and in.

  28. The pair of them liked one another well, but the ties of discipline had kept them icily apart up to now.

  29. Leoline's prison and jailer were something worse; and, for the first time, a chill of fear and dismay crept icily to the core of her heart.

  30. The northwest wind, which had been blowing icily since sundown, had increased in violence to a gale.

  31. The most rigorous primness of behavior does not daunt them, nor the assertion of an icily virtuous intangibility.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "icily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.