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  • This heart-chilling disconnect between these God-peddlers and their capacity for criminal violence is evidence, to me, of the wretchedly incomplete nature of human evolution.

    The George Tiller Murder and the Insanity of Christo-Jihadists 2009

  • The worst part of this heart-chilling episode is that Buddhadeb and Prakash Karat had repeatedly assured the people that the proposed SEZ in Nandigram would be shelved and shifted elsewhere if the people did not want it.

    CPI(Maoist) Central Committee : Let us turn every SEZ into a battlezone like Nandigram ! Abhay N 2007

  • And DGP OP Rathore, the butcher who organized this gory massacre, roams freely in Raipur, fuming against Naxal “atrocities” in true Hitlerian style and justifying this heart-chilling massacre.

    CPI(Maoist) statements on Gujarat fake encounter Abhay N 2007

  • With a sudden dread conviction and heart-chilling finality that momentarily paralysed all reasoning I knew that Gergori was indeed not that crazy.

    The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962

  • With a sudden dread conviction and heart-chilling finality that momentarily paralysed all reasoning I knew that Gergori was indeed not that crazy.

    The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962

  • With a sudden dread conviction and heart-chilling finality that momentarily paralysed all reasoning I knew that Gergori was indeed not that crazy.

    The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962

  • Minute dragged into minute, yet no deer came stealing down to drink, and rapidly the stillness and heart-chilling gloom were getting on my nerves; when, far up the steep side of the cañon opposite to me there came a faint sound, and a small stone trickled hurriedly down into the water.

    Adventures in Many Lands Various

  • Away off towards the swamp, which they were avoiding, the long, heart-chilling cry of a mother-wolf quavered on the still night air.

    The Ontario Readers Third Book Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • 'Go ahead!' shouted Caper, throwing a handful of _baiocchi_ among them; and as soon as these were gathered up, the pipers gave one awful, heart-chilling blast, and the concert was fairly commenced.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • On the instant they were astir, with such heart-chilling movements as those that characterize a venomous serpent preparing to strike.

    Edison's Conquest of Mars Garrett Putnam Serviss

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