• It was a pagan desire, she thought, and it was a pagan place: a dark garden of yews and straggling roses and, at its center, the stone church, with its altar and its font and, above it all, the bells, suspended in the chill air of the belfry, heavy and still, waiting to be brought to life.

    NEWYORKER: The Bell Ringer

  • It seemed to come in waves, wafted across the Channel on the chill January air.

    BBC: How 'Le Pong' engulfed Kent and Sussex

  • When I left -- my stomach full and cheeks rosy from wine and the chill mountain air -- Kevlishvili offered me a water bottle filled with more of his heady, homemade grape juice.

    CNN: Unearthing Georgia's wine heritage

  • Despite the excessive heat of the radiators, I sensed something cold, a chill in the air.

    NEWYORKER: Sweetheart Sorrow

  • Excavation began at six-thirty every morning, when there was still pink light in the sky and a chill in the air.

    NEWYORKER: The Sanctuary

  • The government of sunny Sardinia put a chill in the air earlier this year by declaring a sumptuary tax on visiting yachts according to size.

    FORBES: Land Ho!

  • Winds have been strong, in some cases blowing more than 70 kph (43 mph), which makes the wind chill much colder than the air temperature.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • The wind has also been particularly strong, in some cases over 70 kilometers per hour (43 miles per hour), which makes the wind chill much colder than the air temperature.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Washington had warmed up, the swift storm of the previous day had passed, the sky was overcast but the air wasn't painful in a wind-chill way, and the capital was full of men in cowboy hats and women in long furs.

    WSJ: Way Too Much God

  • And Music Catch is a great, and creative, way to chill out: Players pluck musical notes from the air and create some real downbeat tunes.

    FORBES: Phone And Tablet Games For Grown-Ups

  • Sending her camera gliding languidly into the noonday shadows of a rotting shack, darting dangerously through heavy marshland foliage, or jaunting past city lights from the back of an open-air bus, Akerman embraces the rapturous but desperate beauty of the countryside and the chill of the metropolis.

    NEWYORKER: Almayer's Folly

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