"Frostily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was all over, and the sleepy children had driven off, Paul sat down in an easy chair by the bright fire which sparkled frostily in his bedroom, to think gratefully over all the events of the day—events which were beginning already to take an unreal and ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey
... checked his horses in good time; and there were the men still, but in even greater number than before, stretching farther up Broadway and farther out along the side street. They stood slouched in dim and solemn phalanx under the night sky, so seasonably, clear and frostily atwinkle with Christmas-week stars; two by two they stood, slouched close together, perhaps for their mutual warmth, perhaps in an unconscious effort to get near the door where the loaves were to be given out, in time to share in them before ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... monsieur," she answered, frostily, as near sneering as was possible to so charming a person, and went in, nor addressed him again throughout the meal. Instead, she devoted herself with an unusual and devastating assiduity to the suspiring Leandre, that poor devil who could not successfully ...
— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini
... waits for us in Slip E of the topmost stage. The great curve of her back shines frostily under the lights, and some minute alteration of trim makes her rock a little in ...
— With The Night Mail - A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the - comtemporary magazine in which it appeared) • Rudyard Kipling
... Dillon said frostily: "I'm not interested. The government's officially denied that any such incident took place. It's ...
— The Invaders • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... muscle. Nor was her cheerfulness forced. She had ever a laugh or a smile for him, and her hand lingered in caress whenever it chanced to touch his. Yet, always, when she looked at McCan, her face went hard and pitiless and her eyes flashed frostily. ...
— Smoke Bellew • Jack London
... dark and cold, the stars gleamed frostily overhead, and the nearest mountain peak stood out weird-looking and strange against the purple sky, as the little party stood together listening, and then questioning each ...
— The Crystal Hunters - A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps • George Manville Fenn
... frostily with Morrison. "There was never a situation in state history like this one you have precipitated, sir, and if I have made an ass of myself ...
— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day
... I remember, I had a little talk with you last night!" suggested the agent, frostily. "Whom do you ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day |
