Sentence examples for icy hands from inspiring English sources

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But her composure is shattered when she feels icy hands around her throat during one such performance.

WellPoint subscribers, the only ones who can view the comments, are not apt to learn that a doctor's "icy hands" and "crowded waiting room" made the examination "a downer".

Ms. Zagat said in an interview that unlike the food reviewers, patients are not encouraged to be "pithy and witty" (you will not read how a doctor's "icy hands" and "crowded waiting room" made the exam "a downer").

"How come?" "Maybe because I just don't want to think about putting a timetable on things I hope to enjoy before the icy hands of death snatch me from the Earth".

I quickly snatched my once-again distraught child, scurried up the steps and plopped him down on our tiny porch while I simultaneously held onto his backpack, lunch bag and Valentines, struggled to remove my gloves, pulled out my key and tried convincing my son to put his icy hands between my knees so the cold (and the screaming) would stop.

When you finish the test and see your score, it's easy to feel the icy hands of your potential demon caressing the back of your neck, saying something in a scratchy voice like, "you see, you're not crazy, Bob knows I'm real too!" (Just gave myself the heeby jeebies right there).

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Another is "Death lays his icy hand on kings" (James Shirley, "The Glories of Our Blood and State," 1659).

Or that when someone dies at the end, it is said to be by means of an unseen icy hand of iron.

I'd rather be outside the wall and free than inside it with the icy hand of the censor around my throat.

It felt like a good transition back to the realm we lived in — walls, ceiling, the sound of assertive heels on wood, like the knocking of the grim reaper's icy hand, or like somebody in heels tailgating you on the sidewalk.

It felt like a good transition back to the realm we lived in walls, ceiling, the sound of assertive heels on wood, like the knocking of the grim reaper's icy hand, or like somebody in heels tailgating you on the sidewalk.

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