At one end the blunt cylinder had opened, and the familiar two-foot tube was sucking and smacking at the surface of the lake, drinking deep of the frightfully cold liquid.

It is a small apartment and frightfully cold on this day when winter has scarcely begun in earnest.

"It was empty and filthy dirty, frightfully cold and really miserable," she tells me.

It's frightfully cold.

"And then we thought we'd go to London, but they say it's frightfully cold this time of year, and so gloomy, with the Tower of London and all, where they chopped off Anne Boleyn's head."

When she complained of "being frightfully cold," one student offered her his tweed jacket.

'It's frightfully cold,' said the little mice.

He pulled on two pairs of socks which, wisely, he'd left under the covers all night, and a sweater and a jacket, both of which seemed frightfully cold.

They were frightfully cold and damp and slippery, and their paws kneaded one detestably.

"The only other thing would be to sit up in the machine, and that would be frightfully cold."