And many a time the cry of "bears" was heard in those icy plains.
During the whole of the winter, while building operations were going on, they lived in an icy cold pavillion near Lysaker railway station.
On one occasion he very nearly caused the drowning of his younger brother in the icy river.
The icymass had been for several years traveling towards the sea at the rate of at least a mile every year.
They could not understand Muir at all, nor in the least comprehend his object in visiting icy bays where there was no chance of finding gold and nothing to hunt.
Upon two or three of the glaciers he climbed, although the speed of these icy streams was so great and their "frozen cataracts" were so frequent, that it was difficult to ascend them.
The shadows were dark upon us, but the lofty, icy peaks of the main range still lay bathed in the golden rays of the setting sun.
Those everlasting snow-fields are not cold; This icy solitude no barren waste.
Two weeks from home brought us to Icy Straits and the homes of the Hoonah tribe.
Through Stevens Passage we paddled, stopping to preach to the Auk Indians; then down Chatham Strait and into Icy Strait, where the crystal masses of Muir and Pacific glaciers flashed a greeting from afar.
A short time later they left the trail and went skimming down a windswept slope that stretched away into a barren icy plain.
This is an opinion which will be easily entertained by every one who has been cramped by the icyhand of Winter, and who feels the gay and renovating influence of Spring.
To the edge of this field was a sheer icy precipice; and then, with a gradual fall, the field sloped off for about a mile, until it struck the foot of another lower ridge.
The hill, whose icybrow Rejoiced when he came, in the morning's flame, In the morning's flame burns now.
You can imagine the horror of trench life in this region, with the thermometer below freezing-point and the icy blizzards blowing almost daily.
With infinite labour guns and transports had been hauled up the icy slopes, where a foothold could barely be maintained.
During the night, however, the French Alpine troops were reinforced, and by dint of tremendous efforts guns were dragged up the icy slopes to the top of the spur, and were placed in position on the right and left flanks of the enemy.
Perhaps this icy composure of theirs was not all assumed.
He knew she was so proud, she would rather have been frozen by the icy wind than condescend to beg for the once despised covering; yet she did so now in the hesitating tone, and with the downcast eyes, of one confessing a fault.
Misery was the cold and speechless companion of the young girl as she sate in that icy chamber: misery spread her meal, and made her bed, and was her chambermaid at morning and at night!
I have not been able to detect any relative porosity in the "internal icy structure," nor am I able to find in the writings of Professor Forbes a description of the experiments whereby he satisfied himself that this assumed difference exists.
In his Twelfth Letter he also refers to the ripples "as exactly corresponding to the position of the icy bands.
They smelt the savage bear of the icy seas, which in turn had been attracted to them by its sense of smelling.
Just as well The obstinate traveler might in pride oppose His puny shoulder to the icy slip Of the blind avalanche, and hope for life; Or Beauty press her forehead in the grave, And think to rise as from the bridal bed.
When I said that I was simply taking a walk, and that icy Shasta was my mark, I was invariably admonished that I had come on a dangerous quest.
The frost grew more and more intense, and we became icy and covered over with a crust of frozen snow, as if we had lain cast away in the drift all winter.
Pretty cottages occur at intervals along the road, covered with honeysuckle, and many an upswelling rock, freshly glaciated and furred with yellow mosses and lichen, telling interesting stories of the icy past.
I had walked from Redding, sauntering leisurely from station to station along the old Oregon stage road, the better to see the rocks and plants, birds and people, by the way, tracing the rushing Sacramento to its fountains around icy Shasta.
Three of the Sierra rivers descend from their icy fountains into the desert like angels of mercy to bless Nevada.
And, standing on the top of icy Shasta, the mightiest fire-monument of them all, we can hardly fail to look forward to the blare and glare of its next eruption and wonder whether it is nigh.
Month after month, day and night the heavens shed their icy bloom in stormy, measureless abundance, filling the grand upper fountains of the rivers to last through the summer.
He looked at Daoud with the same icy determination to annihilate all enemies as Daoud had seen staring at him from under the fur-and-iron helmets of the Tartars at the Well of Goliath.
He felt as if his whole body were plunged into icy water.
The city had enjoyed almost summer weather until late in the fall, but now November had fallen upon it with icy talons.
Somewhere near by lay the mouth of a treacherous fissure, and far down at its icybottom lay all that was mortal of my old friend, Abner Perry.
And the Serpent, which is situate next to the icy pole, being before torpid with cold, and formidable to no one, grew warm, and regained new rage for the heat.
But the presence of snow-clad mountains and an icy sea would chill the atmosphere and condense the vapors into thick fogs.
Every snow-storm, every chilling blast that blows out from the frozen lips of the icy North, is but a reminiscence of Ragnarok.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "icy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
