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They went forth into the rain, Hugh's blood leaping with excitement, the plain-clothes man shivering as if he were congealing.

From Nedra by McCutcheon, George Barr

We could scarcely speak; the bones of my face were in intense pain, and I felt as if the cold were congealing my heart.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)