congealments

These sudden congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to evoke, do occur.

Les Miserables 2008

These sudden congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to evoke, do occur.

Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis 1862

These sudden congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to evoke, do occur.

Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

I remember a night when we slept in a neglected assembly-room tacked on to a country inn, on hastily improvised and scantily covered beds, when the water froze in the ewers; and an attempt to walk over the moors one afternoon from Masham into Nidderdale, when the springs by the roadside froze into lumpy congealments, like guttering candles, and we were obliged to turn back; and how we beguiled a ten-mile walk to Ripon, the last train having gone, by telling an enormous improvised story, each taking an alternate chapter, and each leaving the knots to be untied by the next narrator.

Hugh Memoirs of a Brother Arthur Christopher Benson 1893