The branches bearing catkins were pre-treated by chilling in darkness with moist cotton at 4°C for 1 week.
The police action, though expected by the protesters, came in the chill darkness of early morning, with flashing lights, black-clad officers and a blaring public address announcement that the park was being "closed until further notice".
For American tennis fans on the East Coast, the Australian Open final means rising at 4 a.m. in the chill darkness of winter, often on Super Bowl Sunday, and settling in front of the TV alone and quietly in a study or a family room or (in my case) the kids' rec room.
During a pole's winter, it lies in continuous darkness, chilling the surface and causing the deposition of 25 30% of the atmosphere into slabs of CO2 ice (dry ice).
Slint Spiderland (1991) Furtive and insidious, Spiderland sidles out of the speakers to strangle listeners in a filigree web of aching, beautiful melodies, to engulf you in spine-chilling darkness.
Queenofclubs praised its "sheer darkness and chilling atmosphere".
But soon hunger, a chilling drop in temperature and darkness descended on the group.
As the chill and darkness of winter descend, many of us turn to food for warmth and comfort.
— The dank crypt for the living still wields emotional power, its peeling ocher walls and low vaulted ceilings suffused with chill and darkness.
Normally I hate books about romance and family troubles, but the darkness to this made it a chilling tale, with a definite edge.
Give Me Everything You Have is a chilling excursion into memoir from a novelist who has never been afraid to stare down darkness.
