| 1. | A glacial silence reigned in the carriage. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 2. | A voice rose above him, glacial and solemn. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | It was a door even more glacial than that of winter which was ajar. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | He could not help thinking of poor Fantine, and it suited him to be glacial in his manner. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | One would have said that the glacial peace of the sepulchre had sprung forth from the earth and had spread over the heavens. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | This is the wise waggish-will and good-will of my soul, that it CONCEALETH NOT its winters and glacial storms it concealeth not its chilblains either. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 7. | Since we are making a portrait, and since we do not wish to conceal anything, we are forced to add that he was glacial towards Napoleon in his decline. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 8. | The most terrible thing for the prisoner within the four walls in which he is buried, is a sort of glacial chastity, and he calls the dungeon the castus. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | March , matrimonial gift of Matthew Dillon a dwarf tree of glacial arborescence under a transparent bellshade, matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle an embalmed owl, matrimonial gift of Alderman John Hooper. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |