| Its long, cold, metal fingers wrapped all the way around to the back of her neck, clutching her tightly in an icy grip. |
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| But today its warmth did little to dispel the cold feeling of foreboding which enclosed him in an icy grip of despair. |
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| We cared not that for several weeks the whole country, and indeed most of Europe, was locked fast in an icy grip. |
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| It is much the same in winter when frost or, occasionally, a light dusting of snow covers the hillside, holding the dust in an icy grip in the brief moments of dawn. |
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| The terrible winter held Britain in an icy grip for months, during which time we as a family moved into one downstairs room and ate and slept on beds and cots pulled up close to the open fire. |
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| By broadening one's vision in this way, one may recognise the pattern causing an illness, the causal circuits, and the meshes of relations, which generate conflicts and maintain them in an icy grip. |
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| There was a three-month window of opportunity for this voyage before the waters of the straits north of the great bay are known to freeze over and trap ships in an icy grip, shattering hulls. |
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| John Tiffany's exquisitely beautiful and heartbreakingly sad staging of John Ajvide Lindqvist's cult Swedish vampire novel turned movie is set in a silver-birch world that is as much in an icy grip as Narnia. |
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