"Gelid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... To all this we say—Fudge! The sooner you get hold of a leg of roasted mutton the better; but meanwhile, off rapidly with a pot of porter—then leisurely on with a clean shirt—wash your face and hands in gelid—none of your tepid water. There is no harm done if you should shave—then keep walking up and down the parlour rather impatiently, for such conduct is natural, and in all things act agreeably to nature—stir up the waiter with some original jest by way of stimulant, and to give the ...
— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson
... and her elongated figure suddenly foreshortened and collapsed into a small writhing ball from which two small pink hands emerged clutching at a gelid mass of air that flowed ...
— The Lani People • J. F. Bone
... No showrs but 'twixt your lids, nor gelid snow, But what your whiter, chaster brest doth ow, Whilst winds in chains colder for ...
— Lucasta • Richard Lovelace
... And Christendom upreared for weal of men And Angel-wonder. Daily preached the monks And daily built their convent. Wildly sweet The season, prime of unripe spring, when March Distils from cup half gelid yet some drops Of finer relish than the hand of May Pours from her full-brimmed beaker. Frost, though gone, Had left its glad vibration on the air; Laughed the blue heavens as though they ne'er had frowned, Through leafless ...
— The Legends of Saint Patrick • Aubrey de Vere |
