"Coldly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... even the main purpose for which they were wrought; and when any one asked Jesus Christ to work a miracle for that purpose only, He rebuked the desire and refused to gratify it. He wrought His miracles, not coldly, in order to witness to His mission, but every one of them was the token, because it was the outcome, of His own sympathetic heart brought into contact with human need. And instead of the miracles of Jesus Christ being cold, logical proofs ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren
... once to his feet. He had a habit—the outcome, doubtless, of his epicurean tenets, of leaving at once, and at any costs, society not wholly agreeable to him. He bowed coldly to the man who was already greeting Berenice, and who was carrying a great bunch ...
— Berenice • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... it soon was; for the woman who had been summoned by Amine did not fail to mention the circumstance; and Father Mathias found himself everywhere so coldly received, and, besides, so ill at ease with himself, that he very soon afterwards quitted the country, and returned to Lisbon; angry with himself for his imprudence, but still more angry with Amine ...
— The Phantom Ship • Captain Frederick Marryat
... premonitory notion of what he meant, she answered coldly: "What's the good o' me thinkin'? I've got nothin' to ...
— The Dust Flower • Basil King
... an excellent musician: rode fairly to hounds: bestowed prizes at the local charities with grace and distinction—as became a Kingsnorth—and looked coldly out at the world from behind the impenetrable barriers ...
— Peg O' My Heart • J. Hartley Manners
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