A CANDIDATE canvassing his district met a Nurse wheeling a Baby in a carriage, and, stooping, imprinted a kiss upon the Baby's
clammy muzzle.
"Rest and a little tonic medicine will soon set me right." The
clammy coldness of his skin made Emily shudder, as they shook hands.
She was very ugly, clumsy, and
clammy; she hopped on to the table where Thumbelina lay asleep under the red rose-leaf.
It was cold and
clammy, and made me shiver, but I did not care to stand up and run the risk of being discovered by his sharp eyes.
says I; but that's a rather cold and
clammy reception in the winter time, ain't it, Mrs Hussey?
As it passed away, he drew his hand feebly across his
clammy brow, and, smiling faintly, resumed his speech,--"on the brink of the grave, at a moment when all thoughts of me must be connected with the image of death, there can no longer be any necessity for silence.
We had just gone down below for a moment to commune in a battened- down cabin, with a large white chart lying limp and damp upon a cold and
clammy table under the light of a smoky lamp.
As the writhing body of the black soared, as though by unearthly power, into the dense foliage of the forest, D'Arnot felt an icy shiver run along his spine, as though death had risen from a dark grave and laid a cold and
clammy finger on his flesh.
The blood turned like ice in her veins, and a
clammy moisture gathered upon her face.
A
clammy and intensely cold mist, it made its slow way through the air in ripples that visibly followed and overspread one another, as the waves of an unwholesome sea might do.
On every rail and gate, wet lay
clammy; and the marsh-mist was so thick, that the wooden finger on the post directing people to our village - a direction which they never accepted, for they never came there - was invisible to me until I was quite close under it.
Her countenance, a natural carnation slightly embrowned by the season, had deepened its tinge with the beating of the rain-drops; and her hair, which the pressure of the cows' flanks had, as usual, caused to tumble down from its fastenings and stray beyond the curtain of her calico bonnet, was made
clammy by the moisture, till it hardly was better than seaweed.