Coldness

Coldness, which is both a mental and physical quality, behind which we have a region of Repose, the tendency of which is toward sleep.

Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 1856

The Porter, whom any One might have taken for some Grandee, let them in, but with a kind of Coldness and Contempt.

Zadig Or, The Book of Fate 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736

Coldness was worse than crying because crying at least had a pulse.

Sleepwalk With Me Mike Birbiglia 2010

Coldness of spirit hinders praying; prayer cannot live in wintry atmosphere.

Fervency in prayer 2008

Coldness in the bones does not drive sweat from the skin and in the worst instances the fingers may be immobilized by cold while remaining slippery with sweat.

'The House of Wittgenstein' 2009

Light, Heat, Whiteness, or Coldness, are no more really in them, than Sickness or Pain is in Manna.

Locke's Philosophy of Science Kochiras, Hylarie 2009

Coldness or distance could only be imputed to resentment; and resentment, since you have received no offence, how, should it be investigated, could you vindicate!

Camilla 2008

Passion; that between his cold Silence and his Sun − shine Looks, I was like the Traveller in the Fable; the warm Rays of his Eyes made me cast away that Garment of firm Resolution, which the Coldness of his Silence had made me to wrap close about my Heart.

The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

Years Conversation; blame all my feign'd Indifferency and forc'd Coldness towards him; fancy'd he thought on me in his Agony, and nam'd me with his dying Breath; believe I saw his much − griev'd Parents cursing me as the

The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

Thoughts in this Solitude, without regret; when the Coldness of Friends, or rather the want of Riches, deprives me of their Company these long

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008