He felt his limbs growing stiff with the unaccustomed chilliness of the night, and doubted whether he should be able to descend the steps of the scaffold.
He must toast his slippers a long while, in order to get rid of the chilliness which the air of this vile old house has sent curdling through his veins.
He added that the salted meat " barrel ... and the icy chilliness of winter cold rooms saw many a northern colonial family through what might otherwise have been a disastrous year" .