Gelid

Gelid light and air were in the kitchen but out of doors gentle summer morning everywhere.

Ulysses 2003

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

Gelid light and air were in the kitchen but out of doors gentle summer morning everywhere.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Gelid said nothing, but he was in the end the best surgeon's mate amongst them.

Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812

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

"Dead as Julius Caesar, Captain," said Gelid, with his usual deliberation.

Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812

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

But old Gelid and my other allies remain, I believe, in single blessedness until this hour.

Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812

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

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