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"Cold feet" Quotes from Famous Books

... poor circulation of the blood, cold feet and hands, very delicate teeth, and suffer much from accidents and hurts to ...

— Palmistry for All • Cheiro

... "I'll get cold feet if I listen to you long," laughed yearling Holmes grimly. "I wonder if I'd better pull these gloves off and ...

— Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point - Finding the Glory of the Soldier's Life • H. Irving Hancock

... and haul, will you, Pashy?" he pleaded. "That's it; pull hard! It's gittin' sort of muggy in behind here. I'll never complain at havin' cold feet ag'in if I git out of this. Now, then! Ugh! ...

— Cap'n Eri • Joseph Crosby Lincoln

... league with the cattlemen to crowd Annersley off the range, took occasion to suggest to the T-Bar-T foreman that the old man was getting cold feet—which was a mistake, for Annersley had simply wished to keep within the law and avoid trouble if possible. Thus it happened that Annersley brought upon himself the very trouble that he had honorably tried to avoid. Let the most courageous man even seem to turn and run and how soon his enemies ...

— The Ridin' Kid from Powder River • Henry Herbert Knibbs

... oppressors and the situation to which they have been subjected. It was a ringing declaration—a 'mass movement' of the delegates to the convention, later endorsed by the party membership. And as these delegates separated hot-foot for home, they got cold feet as they dispersed into the cold-footed isolation of the individual Socialist scattered here and there throughout this land. The platform contained no statement of individual duty, no individual program of ...

— The Red Conspiracy • Joseph J. Mereto

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