He died of what was called a slight cold, almost four years to the day of his trek through the blizzard.

"Other than a slight cold, I'd say she seems to be in remarkably good shape, considering the adventure she's been through."

He was in bed with a slight cold.

"A mild case of scarlet fever, complicated by a slight cold."

"He caught a slight cold on the boat from New York, but thought little of it," a writer said upon his death.

I think you have a slight cold, nothing more.

A slight cold can undermine even singers in their primes.

For Sarah, the only fly in the ointment was that she seemed to be coming down with a slight cold.

The only thing that picked them up was a slight cold on their ride north.

The runner attributed his poor showing in the quarter-finals to a slight cold.