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  • The sun even rose, at least a white disc, clear, tintless, and almost chill-looking as ice, peeped over the dark crest of a hill, changed to silver the livid edge of the cloud above it, and looked solemnly down the whole length of the den, or narrow dale, to whose strait bounds we are at present limited.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • Again the pensive stare out of the window at the chill-looking autumn sky and the sharp outlines of the city roofs.

    A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929

  • The few other occupants of the gorgeous room eyed his half-bottle of claret with a grave and decorous wonder, but made no attempt to converse with this chill-looking Englishman.

    In Kedar's Tents Henry Seton Merriman 1882

  • It was a bright fire, but it made no difference to the chill-looking purplish tint of Mrs. Waule's face, which was as neutral as her voice; having mere chinks for eyes, and lips that hardly moved in speaking.

    Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

  • It was a bright fire, but it made no difference to the chill-looking purplish tint of Mrs. Waule's face, which was as neutral as her voice; having mere chinks for eyes, and lips that hardly moved in speaking.

    Middlemarch 1871

  • It was a bright fire, but it made no difference to the chill-looking purplish tint of

    Middlemarch George Eliot 1849

  • "I thought I was going over a barren field, and I came to a river so dark and chill-looking that, I was going to turn away, when all at once

    Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations Related in his Revival Work by the Great Evangilist Dwight Lyman Moody 1868

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