"Clamminess" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sickened with a horrible foreboding. A clamminess, such as others feel at the approach of death, spread over my ...
— Simon the Jester • William J. Locke
... on a sunny day both the water and the roof of the cavern are of the vividest cerulean tint—and I saw the grotto so represented in the windows of the paint-shops at Naples. But to my own experience it did not differ from other caves in color or form: there was the customary clamminess in the air; the sound of dropping water; the sense of dull and stupid solitude,—a little relieved in this case by the mighty music of the waves breaking against the rocks outside. The grot is not ...
— Italian Journeys • William Dean Howells |
