"Gelid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... square bleak cottage which he had rented for the winter. Mother, still unable to lift her feet from the floor, opened the door to us, and reaching her, as I did, through that terrifying tempest, made her seem as lonely as a castaway on some gelid Greenland coast. ...
— A Son of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland
... corruption of love. I have therefore called it 'Fiction mecroyante,' with literal accuracy and precision; according to the explanation of the word which the reader may find in any good French dictionary,[157] and round its Arctic pole in the Morgue, he may gather into one Caina of gelid putrescence the entire product of modern infidel imagination, amusing itself with destruction of the body, and busying itself ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin |
