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Examples
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Gelid light and air were in the kitchen but out of doors gentle summer morning everywhere.
Ulysses 2003
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Gelid fingers, farther reaching than the rest, touched the back of his neck.
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Gelid light and air were in the kitchen but out of doors gentle summer morning everywhere.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Gelid said nothing, but he was in the end the best surgeon's mate amongst them.
Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812
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When on the eve of sailing, my excellent friends, Messrs Bang, Gelid, and Wagtail, determined, in consequence of letters which they had received from Jamaica, to return home in a beautiful armed brig that was to sail in a few days, laden with flour.
Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812
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"Dead as Julius Caesar, Captain," said Gelid, with his usual deliberation.
Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812
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Wagtail and Gelid, each seized his two muskets out of the arm -- chest, with the corresponding ammunition, and, like so many sable Robinson
Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812
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But old Gelid and my other allies remain, I believe, in single blessedness until this hour.
Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812
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I am distressed beyond measure at having led you and your excellent friends, Wagtail and Gelid, into this danger; but I could not help it, and I have satisfied my conscience on that point; so I have only to entreat that you will stay below, and not unnecessarily expose yourselves.
Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812
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Tom Cringle, my dear -- Gelid, I am drowned -- we are all drowned -- the ship is at the bottom of the sea, and we shall have eels enough here, if we had none at Biggleswade.
Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812
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