ever so cold

I said quite cold is the phrase, not ever so cold.

The water was ever so cold and tasted ambrosial.

It's ever so cold in this house!

It's ever so cold out there.

'It's ever so cold,' said Lee.

O Emma, I so wish we were back in the house, for I am ever so cold.'

His gaze was cold--ever so cold.

"I 'adn't so much as a single 'apenny to me name and it were ever so cold an' raining ever so 'ard.

Tamas cast a glance at Ela: he heardthe name, constructed it with ng'Saeich, and saw the whiteness of Ela's face, cold, ever so cold and angry.'

Ich runs to the boat house and sees Ben and a disheveled, Maxim, who had gone to help the sailors ("Now she has returned" ... "No smile was ever so cold").