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  • She learned to swim, in a freezing-cold murky pond, before she was two, and she could navigate the rocks in a waterfall before she was four.

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

  • Or they can just go nuts and create an enormous, freezing-cold, poison-gas-shrouded exoplanet.

    NASA's 'Extreme Planet Makeover'; Crochet Coral Reef at the Smithsonian Rachel Saslow 2011

  • Occasionally, I would take a dip in the freezing-cold river.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • Pulling one small vial off the stem, we carefully placed the other vials back into the freezing-cold tank.

    Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011

  • I'm on the plane now, heading home to the grind of civilization, but when I get there I'm going to hold onto the feeling of riding through a rushing stream, Mags' warm body below me as the freezing-cold spray hits my leg and, out of the corner of my eye, I catch a glimpse of mountains too beautiful to be real.

    Tom Matlack: Stillness Tom Matlack 2011

  • Arriving back at the wood-panelled station after navigating Bolzano's empty, freezing-cold piazzas, I waited in the platform bar with a group of labourers who were keeping warm and watching TV before the night train to Naples pulled in punctually at 9.30pm.

    Last train to Sicily 2012

  • Pulling one small vial off the stem, we carefully placed the other vials back into the freezing-cold tank.

    Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011

  • Occasionally, I would take a dip in the freezing-cold river.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • She learned to swim, in a freezing-cold murky pond, before she was two, and she could navigate the rocks in a waterfall before she was four.

    Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011

  • I'm on the plane now, heading home to the grind of civilization, but when I get there I'm going to hold onto the feeling of riding through a rushing stream, Mags' warm body below me as the freezing-cold spray hits my leg and, out of the corner of my eye, I catch a glimpse of mountains too beautiful to be real.

    Tom Matlack: Stillness Tom Matlack 2011

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