After this, Prell's invitations to supper became more frequent as the September days grew chillier, and the colonel's gout made his visits to the town rarer.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
It was the close of a chill October day, and a bank of angry clouds hung darkly in the western sky, while the autumn wind blew across the prairie; but colder, blacker, chillier far than prairie winds, or threatening clouds, or autumnal day was the shadow resting on Ethelyn's heart, and making her almost cry out with loneliness and homesickness, as they drew near the house where the blue paper curtains were hanging before the windows and Eunice Plympton's face was pressed against the pane.
"Ethelyn's Mistake"
Mary Jane Holmes
Indeed I never saw a chillier, less inviting looking habitation, or one that seemed to repel confidence in it more subtly.
"The Man From the Clouds"
J. Storer Clouston