"Clammily" Quotes from Famous Books
... the deal table—this latest of the river's dead—dressed in rough sailor garb, and, to all outward seeming, a seaman of nondescript nationality—such as is no stranger in Wapping and Shadwell. His dark, curly hair clung clammily about the brown forehead; his skin was stained, they told me. He wore a gold ring in one ear, and three fingers of the ... — The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer
... Sam was climbing up the side of the liner as it lay towering over the tug like a mountain. His clothes hung about him clammily. ... — The Girl on the Boat • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... in grayness the next morning. There was a water fog that hugged me clammily, and sounds echoed in it as in a metal canopy. I could not have found my way in open water, but here I could crowd tight to the shore and keep my bearings. I took a keg of pitch with me, for when I saw the weather I knew that I would give the canoe ... — Montlivet • Alice Prescott Smith |