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  • Her eyes were dark and un-alive as coal rock or lava that had slowed into a stationary place and hardened dead-cold.

    Night and the spell that gave me peace Michael Parker 2011

  • Her eyes were dark and un-alive as coal rock or lava that had slowed into a stationary place and hardened dead-cold.

    Night and the spell that gave me peace Michael Parker 2011

  • As soon as I opened the front door, I took a deep breath of that dead-cold air and felt the sweat ice up on my legs.

    THIS IS ME FROM NOW ON BARBARA DEE 2010

  • As soon as I opened the front door, I took a deep breath of that dead-cold air and felt the sweat ice up on my legs.

    THIS IS ME FROM NOW ON BARBARA DEE 2010

  • As soon as I opened the front door, I took a deep breath of that dead-cold air and felt the sweat ice up on my legs.

    THIS IS ME FROM NOW ON BARBARA DEE 2010

  • As soon as I opened the front door, I took a deep breath of that dead-cold air and felt the sweat ice up on my legs.

    THIS IS ME FROM NOW ON BARBARA DEE 2010

  • And there they were, holding a 50-day vigil directly across from the 103rd precinct, on 168th Street, right off Jamaica Avenue and 91st Avenuein Jamaica, Queens, in the dead-cold winter air.

    Kevin Powell: The Sean Bell Tragedy 2008

  • She clasped the inanimate form to her bosom, felt that it was dead-cold, and with a movement of disgust, of which She was not the Mistress, let it fall again from her arms.

    The Monk 2004

  • Now that the year 2001 is approaching, maybe it's time to declare brunch over, dead-cold as yesterday's hot cakes.

    Burn, Brunch, Burn! 2000

  • We could have done so anyhow, but of course you've helped make it a dead-cold certainty.

    Rival Pitchers of Oakdale Morgan Scott

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