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• I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Twilight, Home, Heart

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.10, Penguin

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• Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

  Graham Joyce

  Perfect, Icy, Nuance

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• Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Fall, Thinking, Long

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• May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it's time for work to begin.

  H. Peter Loewer

  Morning, Philosophy, Spring

  H. Peter Loewer (1983). “Peter Loewer's Month by Month Garden Almanac for Indoor & Outdoor Gardening”

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• Don’t ever leave me again,” I said in a tiny voice. I won’t,” he promised into my hair, sounding most un-Fang-like. “I won’t. Not ever.” And just like that, a cold shard of ice that had been inside my chest ever since we’d split up-well, it just disappeared. I felt myself relax for the first time in I don’t known how long. The wind was chilly, but the sun was bright, and my whole flock was together. Fang and I were together. Excuse me? I’m alive too.” Iggy’s plaintive voice made me pull back.

  James Patterson

  Hair, Ice, Wind

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• Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.

  Jessica Mitford

  Summer, Growing Up, Spring

  Jessica Mitford (1960). “Hons and Rebels”, Isis Large Print Books

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• I'm trying to have a moment o' existential dreed here, right? Crivens, it's a puir lookout if a man canna feel the chilly winds o' fate lashing aroound his netheres wi'out folks telling him he's deid, eh?

  Terry Pratchett

  Fate, Men, Wind

  "A Hat Full of Sky". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2004.

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• Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath palpable around the neck hairs of the infielder bending for his crosshand scoop or the reliever slipping his first two fingers off-center on the ball seams before delivering his two-and-two cut fastball.

  Roger Angell

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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• Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea.

  Arundhati Roy

  Sea, Entering, Body

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.245, Penguin Books India

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• A chilly breeze that seemed to emanate from the heart of the forest lifted the hair at Harry's brow. He knew that they would not tell him to go, that it would have to be his decision. "You'll stay with me?" "Until the very end," said James.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Hair, Decision

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• I remain faithful to bourbon sour. It's absolutely delicious. You'd have to ask a bartender what's in it, but I think if you know you might never have a drink. I also love a little rum, 7 years aged, brown, when it is chilly, before dinner.

  Christian Louboutin

  Thinking, Years, Faithful

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• Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memories, Men, Feelings

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• I gave three quiet cheers for Minnesota. In Seattle a dusty inch of anything white and chilly means the city lapses into full-on panic mode, as if each falling flake crashes to earth with its own individual baggie of used hypodermic needles. It’s ridiculous.

  Cherie Priest

  Cheer, Fall, Mean

  Cherie Priest (2011). “Bloodshot”, p.116, Spectra

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• HERE ARE YOUR INSTRUCTIONS, CROWLEY. And suddenly he knew. He hated that. They could just as easily have told him, they didn't suddenly have to drop chilly knowledge straight into his brain.

  Neil Gaiman

  Brain, Instruction, Hated

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• I hate meeting new people even new clients who intend to give me money. I try to be pleasant but I'm not very good at it. The best I can usually pull off is 'professional if somewhat chilly.' It's not ideal no. But it beats 'awkward and bitchy.

  Cherie Priest

  Hate, People, Giving

  Cherie Priest (2011). “Bloodshot”, p.11, Spectra

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• Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.

  John Keats

  Weed, Dream, Sea

  John Keats, “The Eve Of St. Agnes”

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• Durnik needs a tower somewhere in the Vale," Belgarath was saying. "I don't see why, father," Polgara replied. "All of Aldur's disciples have towers, Pol. It's the custom." "Old customs persist --even when there's no longer any need for them." "He's going to need to study, Pol. How can he possibly study with you underfoot all the time?" She gave him a long, chilly stare. "Maybe I should rephrase that.

  David Eddings

  Father, Long, Towers

  David Eddings (2010). “Seeress Of Kell: (Malloreon 5)”, p.23, Random House

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• You know" - Hale's breath was warm against Kat's ear in the chilly ballroom- "I don't know that both of us really have to be here...." The slide changed. While hundreds of mathematicians waited with baited breath, the boy beside Kat whispered, "I could go make some calls... check on some things..." "Play some blackjack?" "Well, when in Rome..." "Rome is tomorrow, babe," Kat reminded him. He nodded. "Right.

  Ally Carter

  Boys, Rome, Play

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• Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Autumn, Mind, Trying

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “The Sound of the Mountain”, p.210, Vintage

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• Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.

  Samantha Bond

  Night, Play, Long

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• Pondering was the highest vocation... Pondering was a special kind of thinking. It was not done in the mind, that chilly place, but in the heart, where the real mystery of intelligence - intuition - rather than thought lay catlike and feminine, ready to pounce.

  Patricia Hampl

  Real, Heart, Thinking

  Patricia Hampl (1993). “Virgin Time”

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• That first plunge under the shore break on a chilly fall morning. It forces a sound out of one's body that is kind of a whoo-ahhh! - shocking and refreshing all at once. You become acutely aware of your body and your surroundings, which is helpful when you're about to paddle out to sea.

  Brandon Boyd

  Morning, Fall, Sea

  "Interview with Incubus Frontman Brandon Boyd". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love.

  Pete Hamill

  Baby, Beach, New York

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• It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and chilly palaces for the mountains or the sea.

  Louis Bromfield

  Book, August, Long Ago

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