Crossword-Solution: ICIEST 6 letters, 58 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

They crossed, however, without more mishap to Carley than further acquaintance with this iciest of waters.

The genial warmth of a Roman April kindling into May was in the atmosphere around them; but when Miriam saw that involuntary movement and heard that sigh of relief (for so she interpreted it), a shiver ran through her frame, as if the iciest wind of the Apennines were blowing over her.

She was roused by the Senora's strong smelling-salts held for her to breathe, and a mocking taunt from the Senora's iciest voice: “The Senorita does not seem so over-strong as she did a few moments back!” Ramona tried to reason with herself; surely no ill could happen to her, in this room, within call of the whole house.

She felt as if Polly was ‘glad inside’ that she was poisoned; she felt sure she was internally jumping for joy at her departure; and, above all, she felt that Polly was entirely too conceited over the attention she had received that day, and needed to be ‘taken down a peg or two.’ ‘Red-haired, stuck-up, saucy thing,’ she thought, ‘how I should like to give her a piece of my mind before I leave this place, if I only dared!’ ‘I don’t need any help, thank you,’ she said aloud, in her iciest manner.

But in February, when everything was at its coldest and iciest, Charley came back,--Charley or his ghost, for the tall, thin, starved-looking ragged boy set down at the gate was very unlike the stout, rosy lad of the year before.