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Cold wave   /koʊld weɪv/   Listen
Cold wave

noun
1.
A wave of unusually cold weather.





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"Cold wave" Quotes from Famous Books



... a thread across her breast, an elastic silvery thread finer than the finest silk. She clutched at it quickly, in a cold wave of terror. It clung to her hand; it wouldn't shake off. And there ran another silver thread over her shoulders. It drew itself across her wings and tied them together—her wings were powerless. And there, and there! Everywhere in the air and above ...
— The Adventures of Maya the Bee • Waldemar Bonsels
... cannot tell what made me so sure. I had deceived the captain so easily that I despised him. I did not give him credit for any intelligence whatsoever. Perhaps that was the reason. Then it came over me with a cold wave of dismay that perhaps the woman Aurelia was on board, hidden somewhere, but active for mischief. I remembered that scrap of conversation from the inn-balcony. I wondered if that secret mission mentioned then was to concern me in any way. ...
— Martin Hyde, The Duke's Messenger • John Masefield


Words linked to "Cold wave" :   wave


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