"Gelid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that he was a scholar and a gentleman by inventing some circumlocution, such as 'the crawling scourge that smites the leafy plain.'. . . In the generation that succeeded Pope really clever writers spoke of a 'gelid cistern,' when they meant a cold bath, and 'the loud hunter-crew' when they ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers |
