Word: cold
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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That the coffee is cold and the rolls wholly crust...
...marble was icy and cold...
...informs us that when the South ask for aid or sympathy from the North they receive "the cold shoulder." One cannot but admire the spirit which leads him to deal in the appetizing metaphor of "the cold shoulder" rather than in the "dry bones" of the ancient Jeremiah. It is impossible to surmise how much is implied by that exceedingly dubious expression, "the cold shoulder"; but the meaning cannot be extended so far as to include the Northern capital, which is the life of the South at the present time. The writer, if he is interested in facts, will also...
...gone for aye, and cold and lifeless stands...
Theirs to a cold Eternity...