With the palm of her hand, the druidess broke the ice, lifted the container, and brought it back to me, her long fingers ruddy and dripping with frigid rain.

A frigid rain that scoured the streets also kept the V.I.P. bleachers along Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House from filling up.

It was grueling work in the frigid rain.

Shortly before halftime in yesterday's 17-13 loss to the Buffalo Bills in a frigid rain, Simms got up limping after having been sacked by Leon Seals at the line of scrimmage.

The other men glared at her, and like a frigid rain their stares doused the warmth.

"You have to wonder," said Bob Lamb, 57, as he stood in a frigid rain and stared at the crowd of police officers guarding the subway entrance on the southwest corner of Union Square.

Having to hold up the candle in the frigid rain was numbing her fingers.

Bending into the frigid rain we trudged uphill to the center of campus, and circled to the back of the Redpath Museum.

Scott looked at the gray, choppy water, the gray, cloudy sky, the gray, frigid rain that was suddenly starting to pepper him with cold wet droplets.

Nine Vanyel stumbled through the pouring, frigid rain.