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One blustery, perishingly cold October day last year, English Heritage threw a celebration at Stonehenge marking the monument’s centenary in public ownership.

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2019

McCall, who has presented shows including Channel 4's Million Pound Drop and ITV's Long Lost Family, had earlier told Breakfast Windereme was "absolutely beautiful but perishingly cold" with the temperature at 5.9 degrees Celcius.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2014

Photograph: PA The blossoms were out, ten thousand daffodils I saw at a glance, but it was perishingly cold in St James's Park last week.

From The Guardian • Apr. 3, 2010

We were perishingly cold and very rarely dry.

From The Glory of the Trenches by Dawson, Coningsby

It is perishingly cold at Chittagong, i.e., in shade in the early morning, but it is bracing, A.1. weather for doing things.

From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon)