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"ref": "1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 4",
"text": ". . .\nAnd the dead were at my feet.\nThe cold sweat melted from their limbs,\nNe rot, ne reek did they;\nThe look with which they look'd on me,\nHad never pass'd away."
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"ref": "1839, Charles Dickens, chapter 22, in Oliver Twist",
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"ref": "1889, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 2, in Cleopatra",
"text": "[T]he great fear grew on me till the cold sweat ran from my brow and my soul was faint within me.",
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"ref": "1915, Zane Grey, chapter 12, in The Lone Star Ranger",
"text": "The leader of the hounds broke into cry again, a deep, full-toned, ringing bay, strange, ominous, terribly significant in its power. It caused a cold sweat to ooze out all over Duane's body.",
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"ref": "2008 October 9, James Saft, “The current crisis is only the beginning”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-07-16",
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"roman": "laang⁵ hon⁶",
"sense": "perspiration which feels chilly",
"word": "冷汗"
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"word": "冷や汗"
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"word": "холо́дный пот"
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},
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"sense": "perspiration which feels chilly",
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"sense": "perspiration which feels chilly",
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"word": "холо́дный пот"
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"sense": "perspiration which feels chilly",
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