Little could be seen by the two travellers who sat huddled chillily in wraps and rugs, the soles of their feet burning or freezing on tin foot-warmers — seen either of the cast-iron sky, over which drifted lower, looser bulges of cloud, or of the bare, flattish country through which the train ran. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He smiled -- somewhat chillily, it must be admitted -- and whispered, his speaking voice being shut off by the garrote. ❋ John Reed Scott (N/A)
Of course a lady gets used to that, working in a department store, "she said, chillily; then repented swiftly and begged:" Oh, I _didn't_ mean to be snippy, Billy. ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
Of course a lady gets used to that, working in a department store, "she said, chillily; then repented swiftly and begged:" Oh, I didn't mean to be snippy, Billy. ❋ Unknown (1914)
The wind was blowing chillily north-westward that night on the other side of our ant-hill shelter. ❋ Arthur Shearly Cripps (1910)
Feeling I was being taken on, I replied rather chillily: ❋ Margot Asquith (1904)
The slow beats of the bell echoed chillily in the hushed apartment. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)
She was ever gloomy, unsympathising, carping, but she worked herself to death for those whose love she chillily repulsed. ❋ Annie Wood Besant (1890)
"Did you have a pleasant walk?" asked Mrs. Bowen, a breath more chillily than she had asked if they had a pleasant drive. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
'If Herr Schurz wants to convert the world,' Herbert answered chillily, rolling himself a tiny cigarette, 'he must convince the unproductive as well as the proletariate before he can set things fairly on the roll for better arrangement. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
I would try never to let a cold cloud pass chillily over your sunshiny head! ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
'You will, I suppose,' Herbert answered, rather chillily: 'but that subject is one upon which we shall be able to form a better opinion when the time comes for actually deciding it. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
The dim light of another hazy October day was creeping chillily over those forest wilds, when a heavy hand shaking him roughly by the shoulder roused Big Black Burl from his slumbers. ❋ Morrison Heady (1872)
On the first fine day in February, we shall see her warming herself, chillily, against the sunny walls. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)
Becoming the renowned original of her society, wherever it might be, in Germany, Italy, Southern France, she grew chillily sensible of the solitude decreed for their heritage to our loftiest souls. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
Amid a motley crowd of scene shifters, firemen, and _figurants_ muffled up in comforters, the poet approached us, his tall figure bent double, his coat collar chillily turned up over his thin beard and long grizzled hair. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
After the preliminary glowering at each other, _more Britannico_, in the drawing-room, everybody regards it as a relief to be summoned to the repast, which, however, commences as chillily as the soup and as stolidly as the salmon. ❋ Henry Vizetelly (1857)
