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Cold sweat

noun

The physical condition of concurrent perspiration and chill; associated with fear.

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"Cold sweat" Quotes from Famous Books

... A cold sweat started out on his face, and he literally tore up the stairs and rushed headlong into the experimenting room, the door of which he ...

— Frank Merriwell's Chums • Burt L. Standish

... philosopher in the world find himself upon a plank wider than actually necessary, but hanging over a precipice, his imagination will prevail, though his reason convince him of his safety.[49] Many cannot bear the thought without a cold sweat. I will not state ...

— Pascal's Pensees • Blaise Pascal

... understood very little of this harangue, though he perfectly comprehended the preparations of the saplings, and Bough of the Oak's allusions to THEM. He was in a cold sweat at the thought, for resolute as he was, he foresaw sufferings that human fortitude could hardly endure. In this state of the case, and in the frame of mind he was in, he had recourse to an expedient of which ...

— Oak Openings • James Fenimore Cooper

... with agitation, and a cold sweat stood upon his forehead. These were his first words since he had entered the house; he tried to lift his eyes, and look around, but dared not; Evgenie Pavlovitch ...

— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... chewin' tobaccer as it is, an' as fer the other necessities of life he wouldn't have any of 'em if his mother wasn't such a dern' fool about him. The idee of him tryin' to get our Susie to marry him—an' Carrie too, fer that matter—w'y, I git in a cold sweat every time ...

— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon

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