Word: colds
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Professor at last broke the silence. "I could sleep no more that night: I had a repelling horror of the thought, - a fear lest I might dream again. I sat there till the cold light of dawn broadened in the east, and the moon slowly whitened away to nothingness. Then I dressed myself, and, stepping out upon the upper balcony, watched the sunrise. As the colors warmed and deepened on the hills, and the broad ocean sparkled and shimmered, - so unlike that ghostly moon-swept sea of my dream, - this sense of oppression grew less vehement, as all such feelings...
...cold, you think...
...excitedly; disputing, it seemed. The woman rose to her feet with a scornful little laugh; and then - horrible to think of - her companion gave her a sudden push, and she fell over the side into the water. Overcome with terror as I was, I staggered forward, and felt the cold waves about my feet; and so woke up, and found myself indeed standing half in water on the lonely, moonlit beach...
...bitterly cold...
...Many a time It shudders over the fearful blunders which cause a life-time's regret that might be averted with but a single word from It. Often It sees two lives that might make one, gradually becoming estranged through trifling, thoughtless error. Then, indeed, It forces open its cold lips to shriek the needed warning. Alas! how vain such efforts are! Have you not, on some winter night, when you were rushing along through the driving snow, been startled by a low, mournful wail? Have you not felt inclined to stop and see what was the cause...