glacier-like

Updated: May 24, 2025

Except in the matter of cleanness, a cleanness that seemed to go down to the deepest fibers of him, Nathaniel Letton was unlike the other in every particular. Thin to emaciation, he seemed a cold flame of a man, a man of a mysterious, chemic sort of flame, who, under a glacier-like exterior, conveyed, somehow, the impression of the ardent heat of a thousand suns.

Jack London - Burning Daylight