A great way to convey a chill in the air cold enough to affect the extremities. Also like the idea of improving an evening by pulling up turnips.
‘Another finger-cold evening, which I improve in pulling up turnips.’Â Â 21 Nov 1860
Source: Henry David Thoreau, The Journal 1837-1861, Damion Searls (ed.), preface by John R. Stilgoe (New York: New York Review Books, 2009), p. 646
