How is it, that it has preserved its transparency, though so many of its tributary streams have been foul, either from the thunder storm, or from the sudden melting of snows?
Wherever there is melting snow in the mountains, you hear that song.
We, if we don't look out, will find our victorious march stayed in mid-course by the melting away of our attacking columns, not kept full in consequence of a too great dissemination of our force.
It was now swollen from recent rains and melting snows in the mountains.
In every direction the gently rolling country is dotted brown and white from the incomplete melting of winter's snows.
It is largely soluble in water, and where melting snow drips over it on the glacier walls below were great splotches, for all the world as though a gigantic ink-pot had been upset.
Commonly in the early morning the waters are low, the night frosts checking the melting of the glacier ice; but this morning the drainage of yesterday's rain-storm had swollen them.
And spying heires melting with luxurie, Satan will not joy at their sinnes, as hee.
They had some trouble in keeping steam, and after a little the heavy engine sank into the soft soil as they crossed a hollow where the melting snow had run.
Lesbian groves, Witness how often at the languid hour Of summer twilight, to the meltingsong Ye gave your choral echoes!
I hope they have not forgotten that they owe me a visit," said Fanny, with a voice more musical than the meadowlark's, and a smile more gentle and subduing than the moonlight melting on the wall.
The melting hours of July were never more manfully met.
White iron melts at a lower temperature than grey iron, but after melting it does not flow so well, or is not so liquid as the grey iron.
Castings possessing various degrees of strength and hardness are produced by melting mixtures of various proportions of white and grey cast irons.
He had realized that the modern world had no faith, since the creeds had gone into the melting pot; and he was trying to write down, plainly, for plain men, exactly what he believed.
The engines of the Ruth were thumping now, and the Hispaniola was melting away over the smooth gray swell.
I remembered the women, Mimika; and the cantaloupe melons, cut in halves, with the ice melting in their lovely yellow hearts; and as soon as the money was in the bank I took the train to the City of the Angels.
With the melting of these snows," continued Aina, "a rapid rise in the level of the water in the southern oceans occurs.
She imagined Aunt Rose melting at that touch and those words into tears, perhaps of repentance, certainly of gratitude, but at this point Henrietta's fancies were interrupted by the sound of footsteps behind her.
Your mother,' she said poetically, 'makes me think of snow melting before the sun.
Next in rank are the melting pine-apples of Pará, and the golden papayas, fully equal to those on the western coast.
And while I waited for her to speak first, I thought with my heart just melting what a lovely big thing she is, with that sort of fair look to her neck, and those warm cheeks, and something so kind about her from head to foot.
A young man entered, a lad of nineteen, with bright eyes, fresh cheeks reddened by the cold, melting snowflakes in his chestnut curls.
At the gate of the villa the priest was still heard yelling at the melting crowd.
Yet the dimness was not impenetrable, but blent with light, melting into it as smoke dissolves into sunlight, as distant music vibrates away into silence.
They used to run their bullets, which were round, bymelting lead in a ladle in the stove.
They lacked ammunition, so I sat up all one nightmelting lead in a teaspoon to make balls.
Her soft melting eye spoke of other love than that of the cold Sultaun’s, and its expression was much heightened by the deep black tinge she had given to her eyelids.
The brightest and warmest green, spangled with flowers, is before us; this is broken by the shadows: beyond the tree there is a delicious grey, melting imperceptibly into the most tender blue.
Maryllia, with much solemnity; "Bone-melting is a great business!
And now assistance seemed near, for the Reverend Putwood Leveson, having had to lead his bicycle up a hill, and being overcome with a melting tallow of perspiration in the effort, hove in sight like an unwieldy porpoise bobbing up on dry land.
Lamme, melting his lead and running his bullets, kept looking with a savage eye at the smitte Wasteele who was driving him to keep awake when he was dropping with sleep.
I have sworn that thou wouldst spit grease, sweat grease, and leave behind thee spots of grease like a candle melting in the sun.
Hodo was upon him instantly and the white arm was withdrawn, its owner melting so quickly into the throng that Charmides could not even recognize her.
Vain were his words, though they fell into space like the pearls of the sea, Melting round God's very throne, with melodious ecstasy fraught.
Every year Jerry marked the trooping of the wild kindred to the foothill pastures when the snow lay heavily on all the higher land, and saw their returning when the spring pressed hard upon the borders of the melting drifts.
When the trail began to run a rivulet from the drip of melting snow banks, the forest ranger went up the Pass, singing as he went and beating his arms to keep himself warm.
In Kennedy Channel the ice was becoming rotten and full of water-holes, and through the soft and now melting snow they travelled with the greatest difficulty.
