Meaning of coldlier | Babel Free

Definitions

comparative form of coldly: more coldly

comparative, form-of, rare

Examples

“There will be care, but she will not know, / There will be winds that will rudelier blow, / And winter snows will coldlier beat, / Yet her rest shall be soft and sweet.”

““Go,” she said, coldlier, distinctlier than ever she has spoken.”

“What if the eyes whose first regards / Met the new rapture of our own, / Looked coldlier on our aging forms; / The heart that beat for us alone // Absorbed in other cares, forgot / The grief of those that loved it most?”

“My neighbour’s weal is weal to me, / If reared not on my ruin! / And though for what I feel or be, / He’d care no more than Bruin, / I’d say, enjoy your silken share— / Yea! as I hope for Heaven; / For Coin and Care a wedded pair / Are six times out of seven! Miss Fortune trips a painted porch, / Too oft in slippery sandal, / Where coldlier glares her gilded torch, / Than Misery’s farthing candle!”

“He looked coldly at Tess. Then he looked coldlier at Sonia, starting with her lovely brown hair and going right down to her pretty slippers and then back up again: “Well, you’re a nice one,” he said at last.”

“For a flare / Of golden covering on every wall / Runs up to meet an evening, lambent glow / Athwart wide-tillaged landscapes: that thy play / May be encompass’d of an indoor day / Forever kindly; though the night may fall / Without, and coldlier stars may come and go.”

“Only if you hear such news as shall give you satisfaction for the general obligation for his Maty., if I may crave it I humbly desire you do impart it to none in those parts before I may speak with your worship lest it be coldlier prosecuted than you think, for some there be that happily will, for their own respects, cross it.”

“The memory we Jews preserve in brine falls longer, coldlier cut than all the shadows across our sanctuaries in ruins.”

“But, finding now that he hath secretly named me for that place, I do coldlier deal therein, knowing both my insufficiency and doubting of the success thereof.”

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