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Updated: June 3, 2025
The stone-cold comforter attracts the poets, and most of them, like Keats, are half in love with easeful death. The word that causes a shudder when it is spoken in a drawing-room gives a sombre and satisfying pleasure when we dwell upon it in our hours of solitude. Sometimes the poets are palpably guilty of hypocrisy, for they pretend to crave for the passage into the shades.
He had no sooner uttered that one than he discovered with dismay that his soup would soon be stone-cold. Sidonie noticed his movement. "Why, you were just eating your supper, weren't you? Pray go on." "'Dame'! yes, what would you have? It's part of the trade, of the hard existence we fellows have. For you see, my girl, I stand firm. I haven't given up. I never will give up."
She pressed Evelina down on the faded cushions of the rocking-chair, and, kneeling beside her, began to rub her hands. "You're stone-cold, ain't you? Just sit still and warm yourself while I run and get the kettle. I've got something you always used to fancy for supper." She laid her hand on Evelina's shoulder. "Don't talk oh, don't talk yet!" she implored.
Wace, and the crystal had been clasped in his stone-cold hands. His face was smiling, said Mrs. Cave, and the velvet cloth from the minerals lay on the floor at his feet. He must have been dead five or six hours when he was found. This came as a great shock to Wace, and he began to reproach himself bitterly for having neglected the plain symptoms of the old man's ill-health.
His arms had been unsuccessful indeed, but had he attended the issue of this sluggish diplomacy, it would have been even worse for the cause of freedom. The sympathy of his best friends, at first fervent then lukewarm, had, as disasters thickened around him, grown at last stone-cold. From the grave, too, of Queen Isabella arose the most importunate phantom in his path.
Yet all the round world rolling up out of the darkness might have heard and seen all that had passed between them. "Oh," said William, unsteadily, snatching up the tea and toast, "I had this made for you. It's stone-cold now. I thought you mightn't have anything ready so early. 'Better not drink it. It's it's stone-cold." "That's awfully kind of you. It's just right.
The country about there was full of queer places, and both he and Lord Dunstan knew more about them than I know about Twenty-third Street." "You saw Lord Mount Dunstan often?" Mr. Vanderpoel suggested. "Every day, sir. And the more I saw him, the more I got to like him. He's all right. But it's hard luck to be fixed as he is that's stone-cold truth. What's a man to do?
"Well, Carrie, how did you like it?" he said as they went along. "Oh, it was all right," said Caroline in an off-handed fashion but she also had an elated consciousness of being important, and did not care a bit though her feet were stone-cold from sitting still in the sentry-box.
On his return to the clachan where, of course, the news of the earl's coming home had long spread, and thrown the whole country-side into a state of the greatest excitement he gave orders, or at least, advice which was equivalent to orders, since everybody obeyed him that there should be no special rejoicings on the earl's coming home; no bonfire on the hill-side, or triumphal arches across the road, and at the ferry where the young earl would probably land where, ten years before, the late Earl of Cairnforth had been not landed, but carried, stone-cold, with his dripping, and his dead hands still clutching the weeds of the loch.
Hundreds of years ago, perhaps, this lonely rock, rising out of the water, was the mouth of some great volcano. To-day it is the door of our house, and when you enter it you find that the rocks below have been hollowed out by Nature in a manner so wonderful that a great house lies there with stone-cold rooms and immense corridors and pits seeming to go to the heart of the world.
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