rose cold
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rose cold
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
Example Sentences
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This time while he was there, it was like sitting on a beach enjoying the sun while the tide rose cold around his ankles.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
But the clerk of the weather was not going to have anything so incongruous as all that, and the 29th rose cold and grey—one of those summer days which are a premonition of autumn.
From The Privet Hedge by Buckrose, J. E.
Lavretsky drew himself up, and rose cold and pale with ecstasy.
From A House of Gentlefolk by Garnett, Constance
The great marble pillars rose cold and magnificent in four stately rows, on all sides of the high-vaulted apartment.
From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by Davis, William Stearns
Far away, whether of clouds or hills I could not yet tell, rose cold towers and pinnacles into the last darkness of night.
From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by De la Mare, Walter
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