chilled to the bone

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Also, chilled to the marrow. Extremely or bitterly cold, as in After skiing in the wind for five hours straight, I was chilled to the bone. These hyperboles replaced the earlier idea of one's blood freezing and are more picturesque than the current synonym frozen.

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What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.
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That means the F-35 will be almost entirely reliant on long-range air-to-air missiles.
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Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
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Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
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All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
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"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
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Something remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.
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