“Cold is thy heart and as frozen as Charity!”
Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet
The Soldier's Wife http://www.lib.utexas.edu/epoetry/southeyr.q3c/southeyr.q3c-95.html, l. 11 (1795).
“The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.”
— Yasunari Kawabata, book Snow Country
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