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  • She willed herself not to look at Rasheed, at the rictus of his mouth, his open eyes, at the blood congealing in the hollow of his collarbone.†   (source)
  • The chicken grew cold, the gravy congealing in its boat.†   (source)
  • He poked his fork into his potatoes, now gone cold and congealed.†   (source)
  • How long would it take blood to congeal on a person's hand?†   (source)
  • I spoon out the congealed salad and the ham sandwiches, can't help but listen to the chatter.†   (source)
  • There were dead bodies everywhere and flies were feasting on the congealed blood on them.†   (source)
  • His ghastly curry has congealed on my plate.†   (source)
  • Post mortem, the blood congeals and turns the inside of the mouth black.†   (source)
  • Jutta scowls, and Werner stares at the congealed liver on his plate with his eyes burning and something inside his chest compressing tighter and tighter, and for the rest of supper the only sound is of the children cutting and chewing and swallowing.†   (source)
  • The face of the Ben I remember is still there, but it's faded …. or maybe not faded, but congealed into a leaner, sharper, harder version of his old face.†   (source)
  • For the war was no longer eroding the peaceful summertime stillness I had prized so much at Devon, and although the playing fields were crusted under a foot of congealed snow and the river was now a hard gray-white lane of ice between gaunt trees, peace had come back to Devon for me.†   (source)
  • Now there was only gauze, black with congealed blood, along the length of the wound which ran from his knee to his ankle.†   (source)
  • The oats taste like congealed animal fat in my mouth.†   (source)
  • I found my dad in the pub at the same table where he'd been, a half-eaten plate of beef and gravy congealing into grease before him.†   (source)
  • Her ribs sat there untouched, grown cold now, a thin film of grease congealing beneath them on the plate.†   (source)
  • It's coated in a thick layer of congealed blood.†   (source)
  • "I received a comm an hour ago," she said once the silence had congealed in the room.†   (source)
  • Ghastly gray light congealed on the land.†   (source)
  • The slaughterhouse stink of congealed blood was mixed with something sharp and sour, like the scent a fierce animal might leave in the night to mark its territory.†   (source)
  • Butler could actually feel his bones knitting and the blood retreating from semi-congealed scabs.†   (source)
  • LuLing encouraged her until the hamburger's rivulets of fat had congealed into ugly white pools.†   (source)
  • She came to him on the second day of Gettysburg and again at Borodino, where the clouds of powder smoke hung above the piles of bodies like a vapor congealed from departing souls.†   (source)
  • The hatch has been open too long, atmospheric pollutants are congealing on the electrical contacts in the back of the pizza slots, he'll have to clean them ahead of schedule, everything is going exactly the way it shouldn't go in the threering binder that spells out all the rhythms of the pizza universe.†   (source)
  • He saw her sitting in here and scooping icecream into her mouth, or maybe handfuls of half-congealed chicken gravy with a Pepsi chaser, simply eating and drinking in a deep depressed daze.†   (source)
  • Past tall anthills congealed in the rain.†   (source)
  • "Not really," I said thinking about the thirty pans, each with a wafer of black, sticky resin congealed in the bottom, big as a dinner plate.†   (source)
  • Just inside the doorway is a puddle of congealing blood.†   (source)
  • "The subject might have come up today with Billy…… " "You and Billy gossip like old women," I complained, stabbing my fork viciously into the congealed spaghetti on my plate.†   (source)
  • His face looked terrible, smeared with blood that had begun to congeal.†   (source)
  • They went to the smelter then, and Rhunon had Saphira pry the still-warm mass of congealed brightsteel from the bottom of the brick trough.†   (source)
  • All the words she knew congealed at the bottom of her throat, a boulder blocking the exit from a cave.†   (source)
  • "Namakieb!" shouted the salt man, propelling his push-cart laden with a mound of moist, congealed salt.†   (source)
  • The face was just beginning, as is the way with boyish faces, not so much to harden as to congeal.†   (source)
  • Every time he came, there would be tears running down his face, congealing there, freezing.†   (source)
  • My dinner congealed in my gut.†   (source)
  • At the end of the evening, most in attendance felt that rather than soothing the hostility over resettlement, the meeting had congealed it.†   (source)
  • Yet a frying pan sat on the old stove, cold, the grease congealed but not, when he leaned to smell it, rancid.†   (source)
  • The blood congeals into a long, red terrycloth rectangle.†   (source)
  • I point at the meat congealing in a grayish sauce in a bowl on the table, next to two fortune cookies and a sad-looking orange.†   (source)
  • The porridge congeals on my spoon in cold, thick clumps.†   (source)
  • She was an immense mountain of a woman endowed with a majestic triple chin and tiny Oriental eyes sunk in folds congealed with grease; she wore rings on all her fingers, and used the affected gestures of a novice.†   (source)
  • Fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, string beans, and biscuits—all sitting angry and cold and congealed on the stove where Amma had left them.†   (source)
  • His hands, full of grease and congealed fat, stay plunged in the water.†   (source)
  • The thrombolytic agent would keep his blood from congealing when it entered the bypass machine.†   (source)
  • This sort of storm is so severe that it cannot even be looked against, and by the snow freezing as fast as it falls, baffles all resistance—for the blocks become choked, the tackle encrusted, the ropes and sails quite congealed, and the whole ship before long one cake of ice….†   (source)
  • The body was mushy, and congealed blood had pooled at the bottom of the bag.†   (source)
  • The hollandaise had congealed a bit, but after I stirred it, it seemed fine.†   (source)
  • Also, blood is splattered and congealed all over the wings, making the feathers clump and shrivel.†   (source)
  • Then she noticed that the clouds were not dropping, that they stood congealed on the edge of the earth-and she realized that the plane was headed toward the mountains of Colorado, that the struggle against the invisible storm lay ahead for her once more.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, their progress slowed—smoothly, wondrously, as though the intervening air were congealing into gelatin.†   (source)
  • It was a congealed pool of blood from the quig that Uncle Press had skewered.†   (source)
  • Thomas, whom I brought along with me, was initially frightened by the congealed, webbish sight of him, as was I. The boy wouldn't step immediately into the room; he needed a moment or two to gather his courage.†   (source)
  • I would like to be killed… in the whitest most boneless valley of the moon, where the blessed sap congeals like alabaster and flows in dough-like strata.†   (source)
  • Went black again, then a faint light filled middle and congealed into cloudy areas light and dark, ellipsoid.†   (source)
  • The outer layers cooled and congealed into planets and then life formed and here we are.†   (source)
  • He had a feel for it, the capacity to stir a headful of unrelated facts until they congealed into a pattern arrowing the future.†   (source)
  • Christophe's handsome face congealed instantly to hatred.†   (source)
  • It congealed intO a whirlpool of stars-a spiral nebula seen from a point far beyond its outermost sun.†   (source)
  • His face congealed, a mask of distrust.†   (source)
  • But it was not his words that I ever remembered, only the cold—the blood-congealing cold and darkness of the woodshed where he marched me and where he made me stay until long after darkness fell over the village and frigid moonlight seeped in through the cracks of my cell.†   (source)
  • Her rage congealed to poison.†   (source)
  • Dawnglows and evenglows congeal on fences, Dawdling and shirking at their tasks.†   (source)
  • There was a small trickle of blood running from his mouth, fresh and still bright red, and more blood from a cut in his head, dark and congealed here and matting his hair.†   (source)
  • I saw the congealed blood on his brow.   (source)
    congealed = thickened
  • By the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up. The surging waters stood firm like a wall; the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.   (source)
  • do you not feel your blood congeal with horror, like that which even now curdles mine?   (source)
  • Light the color of washwater congealing in the dirty panes of glass.†   (source)
  • Blood had congealed on my hands, my chin, my breasts.†   (source)
  • Empty, all but one—in which a small heap of congealed white dust lay.†   (source)
  • Edgar and Almondine panted in unison, their breaths congealing on the window.†   (source)
  • It was harder, as if her blood was congealing there—thicker and slower.†   (source)
  • The next morning, Max yawned and picked halfheartedly at a bowl of congealing oatmeal.†   (source)
  • A few of the street side lamps worked, but their glass sides were cloudy with congealed oil.†   (source)
  • Last night's supper had congealed beside his elbow, scarce touched.†   (source)
  • My brother's breath congealing in the frigid air as he slept.†   (source)
  • Vic sat silent, looking at his congealing sandwich and thinking.†   (source)
  • Our breaths congealing and our hearts beating and the silence thickening between us.†   (source)
  • " "Dinner is served," she announced, carrying this big plate of congealed spaghetti.†   (source)
  • The barbecued lasagna had congealed in its serving dish, a blackened brick.†   (source)
  • But even as the Fugees congealed into a family, the world around them was still roiling.†   (source)
  • It lies on the side of the road near the kid, the yolk brown and the egg white congealed.†   (source)
  • A bare table was all, and on it a joint of meat, cold in congealed grease and a knife beside it.†   (source)
  • Harry noticed that the contents proved difficult to empty into the Pensieve, as though they had congealed slightly; did memories go bad?†   (source)
  • Pearls are congealed oyster spit.†   (source)
  • One morning, a big old trawler materializes very close to them, congealing out of nothing as the fog lifts.†   (source)
  • Using a pair of surgical tongs, she began carefully pulling away the sodden, congealed lengths of ribbon gauze from the cavity in the side of his face.†   (source)
  • Hagrid's hair was matted with congealed blood and his left eye had been reduced to a puffy slit amid a mass of purple and black bruising.†   (source)
  • The room itself had rows of large square pillars, a tessellated ceiling, a line of chandeliers, each with a tassel at the bottom end: a congealed opulence.†   (source)
  • Ulf son of Umar lay in a pool of congealing blood, his arm gone at the elbow, a dozen of his Moon Brothers sprawled around him.†   (source)
  • Sarai had studied offworld for two years at the University of New Lyons on Deneb Drei, but she was homesick there: the sunsets were abrupt, the much-vaunted mountains slicing off the sunlight like a ragged scythe, and she longed for the hours-long sunsets of home where Barnard's Star hung on the horizon like a great, tethered, red balloon while the sky congealed to evening.†   (source)
  • She opened her hand and showed me the dark ball of congealed skin and bone she had brought out with her.†   (source)
  • Peeled flesh hung down and congealed blocks of blood and particles of sand clung to each hanging bit of skin.†   (source)
  • There were winged catapults and Fanged Frisbees, some still with enough life in them to hover halfheartedly over the mountains of other forbidden items; there were chipped bottles of congealed potions, hats, jewels, cloaks; there were what looked like dragon eggshells, corked bottles whose contents still shimmered evilly, several rusting swords, and a heavy, bloodstained axe.†   (source)
  • Hagrid hastily removed the dragon steak from his face, which in Harrys opinion was a mistake, because the black and purple bruising all around his eye was now clearly visible, not to mention the large amount of fresh and congealed blood on his face.†   (source)
  • Eragon positioned himself alongside the trunk so that the rotund galls of the tree's congealed blood bulged out in silhouette and were framed by a cluster of shiny new needles.†   (source)
  • Savagely slaughtered, the feasters lay strewn across overturned chairs and hacked trestle tables, asprawl in pools of congealing blood.†   (source)
  • More was congealing in his navel.†   (source)
  • I realized after a long, slow second–time seemed to be congealing around me, freezing me into place–that the expression I wondered at wasguilt.†   (source)
  • How we giggled, with repugnance and delight, when we found the wax her older sisters used on their legs, congealed in a little pot, stuck full of bristles.†   (source)
  • Jacob's face hardened while I stared at him, congealing into the bitter mask that I'd thought was gone for good.†   (source)
  • The darkness congealed around her.†   (source)
  • I've never tasted dog food but I'm sure this was worse—brownish squares of congealed meat fat from rusted tins, which, lacking utensils, we dug out with our fingers.†   (source)
  • All around her were dirty pots and congealing butter, the fiery red husks of lobsters like the shells of dead cicadas.†   (source)
  • He and Anna had been huddled over some grayish meat congealing in a plastic bowl, just like I'd expected them to be.†   (source)
  • Beans and rice littered the floor like hail and gravel, stuck in the congealed blood and piled up in drifts in the corners.†   (source)
  • The dwarf on the right, a burly fellow with a forked beard, coughed and spat out a glob of congealed blood, then growled, "Nothing that time won't mend.†   (source)
  • The gruel was grey and watery, and he pushed it away after his third spoonful and let it congeal in the bowl.†   (source)
  • In fact, it may be congealing.†   (source)
  • I was planning to put the TV on, and I was mad as @#$% because I knew the spaghetti was congealing in the pot.†   (source)
  • "Once the heart has ceased to beat, a man's blood runs down into his extremities, where it thickens and congeals."†   (source)
  • She averted her face for an instant, glancing at an adjoining line of prisoners shambling through the golgotha of their selection, and saw Eva's flute teacher Zaorski at the precise congealed instant of his doom—dispatched to the left and to Birkenau by an almost imperceptible nod of a doctor's head.†   (source)
  • She felt startled delight as Bronek handed her this indescribable treasure; although dried and wrapped in cellophane, they had a marvelous warm heft in her palm, and lifting the package to her face, she saw the streaks of delectable juice congealed on the grayish-green skin, inhaled the distant voluptuous aroma, faded but still sweet, phantom fragrance of the mellow fruit.†   (source)
  • That knife is already congealing with grease.†   (source)
  • From this a drizzle arose, which in turn congealed to rime.†   (source)
  • By morning they will be pale and green and their blood congealed and black.†   (source)
  • It was as though a sharp little gimlet had run into the solid congealed mass of Emily Brent's brain.†   (source)
  • HOPE—(his smiling face congealing) No, you don't!†   (source)
  • It poured itself out, higgledy-piggledy, in torrents of rhyme and prose, poetry and philosophy which stand congealed in quartos and folios that nobody ever reads.†   (source)
  • They came out at ten-thirty or eleven o'clock, on cold ringing pavements, into a world frozen bare—a dead city of closed shops, dressed windows, milliners' and clothiers' models posturing with waxen gaiety at congealed silence.†   (source)
  • Upon the impalpable plane of it their shadows form as upon a wall, as though like sound they had not gone very far away in falling but had merely congealed for a moment, immediate and musing.†   (source)
  • It was dark among the cedars, the light more dark than gray even, the quiet rain, the faint pearly globules, materialising on the gun barrels and the five headstones like drops of not-quite-congealed meltings from cold candles on the marble: the two flat heavy vaulted slabs, the other three headstones leaning a little awry, with here and there a carved letter or even an entire word momentary and legible in the faint light which the raindrops brought particle by particle into the gloom…†   (source)
  • With the decision, some of her fear fell away and there remained only a congealed feeling in her breast, as if all hope and fear had frozen.†   (source)
  • He laughed and applied himself hungrily to the cold corn pone and cold turnip greens on which congealed grease was thick in white flakes.†   (source)
  • And at once Clyde shriveling—the news playing upon him as an icy and congealing breath.†   (source)
  • My blood congeals to think That other hand should change a comma's dot.†   (source)
  • The ball of the human finger is but a drop congealed.†   (source)
  • The sea was starting to congeal everywhere.†   (source)
  • It is tough with congealed tendons—a wad of muscle—but still contains some oil.†   (source)
  • "Don't you understand," he went on, "that the congealing of this water could come to our rescue?†   (source)
  • The nose is a manifest congealed drop or stalactite.†   (source)
  • But she saw these Scandinavian women zealously exchanging their spiced puddings and red jackets for fried pork chops and congealed white blouses, trading the ancient Christmas hymns of the fjords for "She's My Jazzland Cutie," being Americanized into uniformity, and in less than a generation losing in the grayness whatever pleasant new customs they might have added to the life of the town.†   (source)
  • But that conception of the future, that flowing stream, colourless and unconfined, a single word from Odette sufficed to penetrate through all Swann's defences, and like a block of ice immobilised it, congealed its fluidity, made it freeze altogether; and Swann felt himself suddenly filled with an enormous and unbreakable mass which pressed on the inner walls of his consciousness until he was fain to burst asunder; for Odette had said casually, watching him with a malicious smile:…†   (source)
  • After this season of congealed dampness came a spell of dry frost, when strange birds from behind the North Pole began to arrive silently on the upland of Flintcomb-Ash; gaunt spectral creatures with tragical eyes—eyes which had witnessed scenes of cataclysmal horror in inaccessible polar regions of a magnitude such as no human being had ever conceived, in curdling temperatures that no man could endure; which had beheld the crash of icebergs and the slide of snow-hills by the shooting…†   (source)
  • Inflammation spread to adjacent blood vessels; lured to the scene of the accident, white corpuscles now arrived; death by congealing proceeded apace.†   (source)
  • His soul was fattening and congealing into a gross grease, plunging ever deeper in its dull fear into a sombre threatening dusk while the body that was his stood, listless and dishonoured, gazing out of darkened eyes, helpless, perturbed, and human for a bovine god to stare upon.†   (source)
  • Presently it congealed.†   (source)
  • Holding his candle so that he could read the coffin plates, and so holding it that the sperm dropped in white patches which congealed as they touched the metal, he made assurance of Lucy's coffin.†   (source)
  • He shrunk and congealed spiritually, the revealing effects of his so poorly conceived and executed scheme weighing upon him as the world upon the shoulders of an inadequate Atlas.†   (source)
  • This substance could then stream from the medium and temporarily congeal outside his or her body to form biologically living organs, which served as grasping mechanisms, the hands that performed those astonishing trifles they had all witnessed in Dr. Krokowski's laboratory.†   (source)
  • This riotous living, however, soon led to ruin, because the nuclei of these monster cells began to shrink and break down, their protoplasm began to congeal and decompose; other tissues in the vicinity were affected by the same foreign stimuli.†   (source)
  • Outside his body, under the eye of science, Hans Castorp's congealed blood continued to pass the test.†   (source)
  • The Mother of God, her hood drawn up, her brows furrowed in agony, her mouth skewed and gaping in lamentation; the Man of Sorrows on her lap, a primitive figure, badly out of scale, the crudely fashioned body revealing an ignorance of anatomy, the drooping head studded with thorns, the face and limbs splattered and dripping with blood, thick globs of congealed blood at the wound in the side, nail marks on the hands and feet—this showpiece definitely lent the silk room a special accent.†   (source)
  • Gathering my mantle about me, and sheltering my hands in my muff, I did not feel the cold, though it froze keenly; as was attested by a sheet of ice covering the causeway, where a little brooklet, now congealed, had overflowed after a rapid thaw some days since.†   (source)
  • And now, in the well-nigh congealed immobility of his frame could be discerned an incipient movement, as in the darkest night may be discerned light after a while.†   (source)
  • 'So it is,' I replied, 'when young and fresh, but as it ripens the milk becomes congealed, and in course of time is solidified into a kernel.†   (source)
  • But there seemed to be nothing, no trace, except in one place, where some thick drops of congealed blood were clinging to the frayed edge of his trousers.†   (source)
  • The flesh hung in red shreds, and there flowed from it liquids that congealed into green scale down to the nose, whose black nostrils sniffed convulsively.†   (source)
  • The main ballast tanks were filled with the water that hadn't yet congealed at our line of flotation.†   (source)
  • They compared her to flakes of snow; as pure, as white, as brilliant, and as liable to melt in the fierce heats of summer, or congeal in the frosts of winter.†   (source)
  • August 26th, 17— You have read this strange and terrific story, Margaret; and do you not feel your blood congeal with horror, like that which even now curdles mine?†   (source)
  • But Dolokhov did not go away; he untied the handkerchief around his head, pulled it off, and showed the blood congealed on his hair.†   (source)
  • Many of the passions which congeal and keep asunder human hearts, are then obliged to retire and hide below the surface.†   (source)
  • It is like molten glass cooled but not congealed, and the few motes in it are pure and beautiful like the imperfections in glass.†   (source)
  • The water-plug being left in solitude, its overflowings sullenly congealed, and turned to misanthropic ice.†   (source)
  • Tradition,—which sometimes brings down truth that history has let slip, but is oftener the wild babble of the time, such as was formerly spoken at the fireside and now congeals in newspapers,—tradition is responsible for all contrary averments.†   (source)
  • The mother, who had not said a word so far, now rose and demanded in a dull, slow, languid voice, whence her words seemed to emerge in a congealed state:— "What do you mean to do, my dear?"†   (source)
  • So, with his ivory leg inserted into its accustomed hole, and with one hand firmly grasping a shroud, Ahab for hours and hours would stand gazing dead to windward, while an occasional squall of sleet or snow would all but congeal his very eyelashes together.†   (source)
  • This sight suddenly changed the course of his ideas, and congealed his enthusiasm as a breath of air congeals melted rosin.†   (source)
  • The weather was already growing wintry and morning frosts congealed an earth saturated by autumn rains.†   (source)
  • From this silence there arises a certain mysterious plenitude which filters into thought and there congeals into bronze.†   (source)
  • This sight suddenly changed the course of his ideas, and congealed his enthusiasm as a breath of air congeals melted rosin.†   (source)
  • Besides, I was out of practice in talking to him: his reserve was again frozen over, and my frankness was congealed beneath it.†   (source)
  • Further on, from the bright red windows of the "Sword-Fish Inn," there came such fervent rays, that it seemed to have melted the packed snow and ice from before the house, for everywhere else the congealed frost lay ten inches thick in a hard, asphaltic pavement,—rather weary for me, when I struck my foot against the flinty projections, because from hard, remorseless service the soles of my boots were in a most miserable plight.†   (source)
  • We don't need to go out and look on the quay at the corner of the Tour de l'Horologe, to find out the number of degrees of cold; we feel our blood congealing in our veins, and the ice forming round our hearts, and we say: 'There is no God!'†   (source)
  • I covered my head and arms with the skirt of my frock, and went out to walk in a part of the plantation which was quite sequestrated; but I found no pleasure in the silent trees, the falling fir-cones, the congealed relics of autumn, russet leaves, swept by past winds in heaps, and now stiffened together.†   (source)
  • If they were permanently congealed, and small enough to be clutched, they would, perchance, be carried off by slaves, like precious stones, to adorn the heads of emperors; but being liquid, and ample, and secured to us and our successors forever, we disregard them, and run after the diamond of Kohinoor.†   (source)
  • These sudden congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to evoke, do occur.†   (source)
  • There is congealment in despair.†   (source)
  • They walked, over rotting logs that sank without resistance into the shifting ground, through a vast, uncongealed globe of moonlight and coiling mist-with two spots of living fire in their hands and the glow of two small circles to light their faces.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncongealed means not and reverses the meaning of congealed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • They ride upon his back, though they are upright and uncongealed, and perhaps if you and your gracious father are moons that sail and dip in the rainbow lines of Saturn's rings, I am but a true, but a proud tree, on the mountain of the moon, standing upright in the cool light of the blessed protector, whose cloak of silk like a luminous mantle is draped across the stars, and from the dog that rides in the godly sea of space, this exaltedness runs in train, trying to lap its blessed…†   (source)
  • April 8, 1928 The day dawned bleak and chill, amoving wall of gray light out of the northeast which,instead of dissolvinginto moisture, seemed to disintegrate into minute and venomous particles, like dust that, when Dilsey opened the door of the cabin and emerged, needled laterally into her flesh, precipitating not so much amoisture as a substance partakingof the quality of thin, not quite congealed oil.†   (source)
  • —But it is certain that when he makes water, his urine is congealed ice; that I know to be true.†   (source)
  • Mute and amaz'd, my hair with terror stood; Fear shrunk my sinews, and congeal'd my blood.†   (source)
  • — O, gentlemen, see, see! dead Henry's wounds Open their congeal'd mouths and bleed afresh!†   (source)
  • His knocking knees are bent beneath the load, And shiv'ring cold congeals his vital blood.†   (source)
  • That pure congealed white, high Taurus' snow, Fann'd with the eastern wind, turns to a crow When thou hold'st up thy hand: O, let me kiss This princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!†   (source)
  • Your honour's players, hearing your amendment, Are come to play a pleasant comedy; For so your doctors hold it very meet, Seeing too much sadness hath congeal'd your blood, And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy: Therefore they thought it good you hear a play, And frame your mind to mirth and merriment, Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.†   (source)
  • 15:8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.†   (source)
  • He hath a tear for pity and a hand Open as day for melting charity: Yet notwithstanding, being incensed, he 's flint; As humorous as winter and as sudden As flaws congealed in the spring of day.†   (source)
  • They had no feathers, but their fashion was of a bat; and he was flapping them so that three winds went forth from him, whereby Cocytus was all congealed.†   (source)
  • The priest, perplexed and amazed, made haste to examine the wound with both hands, and found that the blade had passed, not through Basilio's flesh and ribs, but through a hollow iron tube full of blood, which he had adroitly fixed at the place, the blood, as was afterwards ascertained, having been so prepared as not to congeal.†   (source)
  • Insomuch as we may compare this Distemper very aptly to an Ague; wherein, the fleshy parts being congealed, or by venomous matter obstructed; the Veins which by their naturall course empty themselves into the Heart, are not (as they ought to be) supplyed from the Arteries, whereby there succeedeth at first a cold contraction, and trembling of the limbes; and afterwards a hot, and strong endeavour of the Heart, to force a passage for the Bloud; and before it can do that, contenteth it…†   (source)
  • And one of the wretches of the cold crust cried out to us, "O souls so cruel that the last station is given to you, lift from my eyes the hard veils, so that I may vent the grief that swells my heart, a little ere the weeping re-congeal!"†   (source)
  • …memory, with which one need have no fear of death, or dread dying of any wound; and so when I make it and give it to thee thou hast nothing to do when in some battle thou seest they have cut me in half through the middle of the body—as is wont to happen frequently,—but neatly and with great nicety, ere the blood congeal, to place that portion of the body which shall have fallen to the ground upon the other half which remains in the saddle, taking care to fit it on evenly and exactly.†   (source)
  • "Then, not before, I felt my cruddled blood Congeal with fear, my hair with horror stood: My father's image fill'd my pious mind, Lest equal years might equal fortune find.†   (source)
  • Enter the city, clip your wives, your friends, Tell them your feats; whilst they with joyful tears Wash the congealment from your wounds and kiss The honour'd gashes whole.†   (source)
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