The question was asked in angry e-mail messages and muttered conversations over candlelight in frigid houses over the past month.
Over the past several frigid, house-bound weeks, I made sure we were stocked up on the aforementioned essentials as well as two other even more important items: 55 gallon trash bags for whatever room, corner or crevice, I was tackling, and wine for when I was done.
Your cold house, your chilly office does not feel so frigid anymore.
He had tossed and turned the night before in a frigid stone house infested with rats.
Miraculously, Mr. Kaarmann escaped, spending the night in a frigid swamp and seeking help, house to house, until an old woman sent a message to the Latvian Forest Brothers to rescue him.
Soon the wind came, and the next morning Oomittuk's house was frigid: the stove had run out of oil.
On a recent frigid Friday morning, Lieb House, distinctive for the whimsical, large-scale black number 9 painted by its front door and its outsize, sea-view-enhancing side windows, sat unmolested in the parking lot in Barnegat Light.
He had a satellite television and a satellite telephone, yet the house was frigid; in a land of cheap oil, the Kurds, who are cut off the Iraqi electric grid by Saddam on a regular basis, survive on generator power and kerosene heat.
We have no idea, really, how to program the thermostat (and are unable to decipher the directions, because they're in a type size suited to far younger eyes), so we just fiddle with it from hour to hour and let the house go frigid overnight.
