Freezing

Examples

• One would think the night would be long enough, in this freezing silence and solitude, if one went to bed two hours hence. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Winter seemed conquering her spring; the mind's soil and its treasures were freezing gradually to barren stagnation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• A more scientific statement, however, is that the cold vapor absorbs the heat units of the water, and taking them away with it, lowers the temperature of the water to the freezing point. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In winter the heat from the freezing water keeps the temperature of the surrounding higher than it would naturally be, and consequently the cold weather is less severe. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Now he's freezing! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My Lady Dedlock, having conquered HER world, fell not into the melting, but rather into the freezing, mood. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• No trees were to be seen, nor any vegetable growth save a poor brown scrubby moss, freezing in the chinks of rock. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Six children are huddled into one bed to keep from freezing, for they have no fire. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It was midwinter and during the siege we had rain and snow, thawing and freezing alternately. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Freezing water into ice is caused by making the molecules, and, in turn, the atoms, stick to each other. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Warnings of frosts and of freezing weather have enabled the growers of such products to protect and save large quantities of valuable plants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The heat from this lamp would prevent the liquid from freezing, so that the meter could go on doing its duty. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Most substances have a definite melting or freezing point which never changes so long as the surrounding conditions remain the same. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• While most of us are familiar with the bursting of water pipes on a cold night, few of us realize the influence which freezing water exerts on the character of the land around us. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Towards the servants Mrs. Pryor's bearing was not uncourteous, but shy, freezing, ungenial. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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