Word: cool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leave them cool and quiet...
...similar fate pursues Ingunn and her master. In righteous wrath Olav had secretly killed Ingunn's lover, but nevertheless married Ingunn to love and cherish her. "Now at last they were safely together. He passed his hand over her shoulder and arm?it was cool and soft as silk; the coverlet had slipped down. He drew it up, bending over her with caresses, and she replied from her drowsiness with little sleepy words of endearment, like a bird twittering on its nightly perch. But his heart was wakeful and easily scared? it started like a bird that flies...
Other lacerations, savage, made the Senator all gory and unrecognizable as he crawled from the wrecked limousine. His nose was broken. Prudent, cool-headed and courageous, he insisted upon being rushed by train to Paris as soon as a provincial doctor had cleaned and bound his wounds. At home, in his sumptuous house Joseph Caillaux presently entrusted his bald head, lacerated face and body to the Professors Laurent and Revaux...
...Legend tells that hot, sweating Plowboy Young was so impressed one summer day by the cool nonchalance of attorneys arguing in the county court house that he instantly resolved to turn from clods and dirt...
What did you say? In the dusk, in the cool tombs? . . . I don't think I see what you mean, quite . . . Shall...