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Neither Ketti Frings's Mr. Sycamore nor Philip Barry's Without Love would probably have rated a bid to the exciting birthday parties of the Guild's youth, when whimsey and small talk were freezingly snubbed.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was freezingly cold, and this job of seeing off a distinguished stranger was not one to be envied, but Lieutenant Dubose performed his part manfully.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

"What I think can in no way concern you," I replied very freezingly; for, somehow, I could not quite understand Josephine's looks.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

It was freezingly cold, and I never knew it.

From Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing by Page, Gertrude

"I ask for no excuse," answered Madeleine, freezingly.

From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt