The night was piercingly cold, the bed merely a board of wood.

It was almost too warm, although the weather outside was piercingly cold.

The wind blew in gusts from the Sant highlands and was piercingly cold.

It was piercingly cold, and she grew numb with it, and then drowsy.

Here, the temperature nosedived -it was piercingly cold but radiant.

When we started, the moon was shining brightly, and the morning was piercingly cold.

On the following morning it rained harder than ever, and the wind was piercingly cold.

It was piercingly cold outside, minus 20C or so.

The day was piercingly cold; the sun's rays were reflected from a crust of glittering snow.

It was now drawing towards evening, and the air began to be sensibly and piercingly cold.

By this time the wind was piercingly cold.

The day had been keen, and piercingly cold.

Quite too piercingly cold, I call it! and even Mellicent had not the courage to contradict.

It was a region of great extremes of temperature,-thesummers being hot, and the winters piercingly cold.

Quite suddenly the air grew piercingly cold.

The moon had just gone down, and the morning was pitchy dark, and, as usual, piercingly cold.