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"Cold sweat" Quotes from Famous Books

... A cold sweat broke out on my forehead. The woman had understood every word I said to her, understood what I meant as well as what I wanted to convey to her, two very different things. She was immensely more clever than I suspected or could ...

— Gossamer - 1915 • George A. Birmingham

... Cold sweat stood out all over him; it ran down his face in trickling streams and his body was drenched with that clammy ...

— The Fortieth Door • Mary Hastings Bradley

... an hour after it has happened. It stains backward through all the leaves we have turned over in the book of life, before its blot of tears or of blood is dry on the page we are turning. For this we seem to have lived; it was foreshadowed in dreams that we leaped out of in the cold sweat of terror; in the "dissolving views" of dark day-visions; all omens pointed to it; all paths led to it. After the tossing half-forgetfulness of the first sleep that follows such an event, it comes upon us afresh, as a surprise, ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857 • Various

... jarred on young Wetherby's finer feelings, shaken as he was by the acute agony he was suffering, and he dragged himself on again, the cold sweat standing in great beads ...

— With Haig on the Somme • D. H. Parry

... had—a nightmare in which he read a printed copy of his work, and a wrongly accented enclitic stuck out from one of the pages like a sore thumb. He woke in a cold sweat, ran to his duplicate proofs, found that his text was correct—and went back ...

— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes

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