And, after all, he came to shovel snow for a livelihood; and the cloth, becoming wet, tightened its knots and could not be removed.
It should hail and blow and snowto be consonant with the mood of Miss Conway.
The fine snow almost sizzled when it fell upon his perspiring brow.
He was violently opposed to anybody being comfortable, and coming in out of snow storms, or wearing overshoes, or taking medicine, or coddling themselves in any way.
Many a night I've laid in the snow up there where I worked like a slave for three years, and wondered if I'd ever have anybody to like me.
Snow began to fall, first in scudding, scanty flakes, but increasing until the air was full of a great, fleecy swirl.
The snowwas not so deep there, having blown considerably in the open places.
After a littlesnow you'd think a drove of sheep had been trackin' around.
Mornin', Wils," drawled Wade, as he slapped the snow from boots and legs.
Wal, if you must go, I hope you'll come again before the snow flies.
The snow had drifted there and he had no easy task.
White patches of snow showed in the sheltered nooks.
There was a little square window cut through the logs and through which many a night the snow had blown in upon her bed.
Such a heavy snow as this one would put an end to hunting for the time being.
The snow melted off the valleys, and the wild flowers peeped from the greening grass while yet the mountain domes were white.
Huge fig-trees lean their weight of leaves and purple fruit upon the cottage walls, while cherry-trees and apricots snow the grass in spring with a white wealth of April blossoms.
Straight from the sea-beach rise mountains of distinguished form, not capped with snow or clothed with pines, but carved of naked rock.
A few miles away to the westward the ascent of the Black Hills begins, the road ascending over the rugged granite hills, and winding in and out of miles of snow sheds.
The winter in the latitude of Montreal is long and cold, and sometimes the snow falls to a depth of several feet, lying upon the ground for months.
Icelandic snow shoes and Hindoo gods occupy places on the same shelf, in peaceful proximity, and catamounts, paralyzed in the act of springing, glare at you harmlessly behind their glass cases.
And they bear sometimes a crown of lightest snow wreaths, which seem like a white blossoming in promise of the beauties of the border in the coming summer.
It is said to come up and bloom in the snow, but I have never seen it in blossom earlier than March, and never then unless the snow has vanished.
The snow is gone from the garden walks and some of the open beds; you walk warily down the softened path at midday, and you smell the earth as it basks in the sun, and a faint scent comes from some twigs and leaves.
It was hardy enough, but so hopelessly brittle in wood that it was constantly broken by the wind and snow of our Northern winters, even though it was sheltered under some stronger shrub.
And the delights of making a snow man, or a snow fort, even of rolling great globes of snow, were infinite and varied.
Illustration: "A running ribbon of perfumed snow which the sun is melting rapidly.
The splendid "running ribbons" of Snow Pinks, on page 292, are in another Narragansett garden that is a bower of blossoms.
Box edgings are pleasant, too, in winter, showing in grateful relief against the tiresome monotony of the snow expanse.
Sometimes a sudden thaw of heavy snow and an equally quick frost formed a miniature pond for sheltered skating at the lower end of the garden.
Comparatively speaking, but little animal life flourishes under the unnumbered snow peaks, and in the unmeasured spaces of virgin forest, which cover those valleys and in many places cloak the mountains from base to shoulder.
At last we got to the top of the last ridge of all, and there, standing in the teeth of a strong wind, we looked down upon Lake Argentino lying below us, and backed by the peaks and snow summits of the Cordillera.
The rain of the afternoon turned to snow in the night, and it became very cold, a comfortless position for a feverish man.
The snow is directly responsible for the death of a great many pumas, for when it is lying on the ground the animals can easily be tracked.
Snow lay in the hollows so deep that only the lean crests of the higher bushes could thrust themselves through its surface.
In the pantanos the tracks made in the end of the winter, when the snow has melted and the ground is soft, remain visible for five or six months.
A mighty wind from the west, cold with the snow of the Cordillera, blew in our faces, bringing with it showers of sand that stung us sharply.
Patagonian horses, which are descended from those brought over by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century, are never stabled, but are turned out rain and snow in their troops.
And all at once, the Daughter of the Snow exclaimed: See, there is the mirage!
Bubbles of the Foam The Ashes of a God A Digit of the Moon The Descent of the Sun An Incarnation of the Snow A Mine of Faults Fcap.
And did not even the Daughter of the Snow abandon, not only her father, but even her own body, for the sake of the Moony-crested god?
And after a while, the Daughter of the Snow said softly: Alas!
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Now the snow had ceased, several pitiful little fires were springing up in sheltered spots; and the men were moving about in their heavy wraps, and the surgeons coming in and out the groups of wounded and sick.
There was no answer: the blast of heavy snow chilled speech.
The snowwas beginning to invade their temporary shelter.
They say Cardinal Fleury cannot sleep at night because of it,” remarked the old Marquis, “that he always sees snow and blood about him.
The path was wet and slippery, half frozen already, though the snow had only lain a moment.
To his great relief he found that the snow had almost ceased, but the air was glacial.
Ah, well, in that case it would have been far better if he had died with Hippolyte de Seytres in Prague or with Georges d’Espagnac among the snow and darkness.
The snow increased and drifted round the wagon and began to cover them softly.
I wished to help you ever since we tramped the snowtogether in Bohemia.
He rose, and the snow drifted on to his argent epaulettes, his torn lace cravat and his loose hanging hair.
He touched his beaver and rode on, first adding gravely, “Pray God it does not snow again.
Stir your lazy legs, or I'll throw every one of you on the work-house the moment the first snow falls.
It is not the snow that I speak of; it is the intense and deadly cold, that keeps all but the very strong people indoors.
In the deepening snow he drew his horse up under the two great yew-trees that overhung his sister's gate, and fumbled in the dark for the handle.
The ruts were as slippery as glass, and did not altogether fit the wheels he had behind him; and in spite of the spikes which the blacksmith gave him, the snow balled on his hairy feet.
But that was before the snow had fallen so thickly on his own mane and tail, and even his wise eyebrows.
The driving of the north-east wind had gathered as into a funnel there, and had stacked the snow of many acres in a hollow of less than half a rood.
In all the beauty of fair earth, few things are more beautiful than snow on clustering ivy-leaves.
Carrier answered as he turned away; but his cheeks beneath a week's growth of beard turned as white as the snow in the buckthorn.
It was raining hard, and the river in flood with all the melted snow and so on, when I crossed that pretty bridge.
She knew the place at a glance, although in the snow it looked so different; and she ran to the gap, and peeped as if she expected to see it all again.
For example, it snowed last night and when I waked this morning my bed was covered with snow which beat in through the window--the floor was nearly covered also, the snow coming in under the door.
As soon as the snow had packed hard I began to drive about the country in a clumsy sleigh that Otto Fuchs made for me by fastening a wooden goods-box on bobs.
The snow was flying round her and she bent to face it, looking more lonesome-like to me than usual.
All about us the snow was crusted in shallow terraces, with tracings like ripple-marks at the edges, curly waves that were the actual impression of the stinging lash in the wind.
We drove slowly away, against the fine, icy snow which cut our faces like a sand-blast.
Next day our men had to shovel until noon to reach the barn—and the snow was still falling!
Sometimes he was completely hidden by the clouds of snow that rose about him; then he and the horses would emerge black and shining.
But the snow and the bitter weather had disheartened them all.
But on the 21st of December, the snow began to fall.
But by March the ice was rough and choppy, and the snow on the river bluffs was gray and mournful-looking.
We stood about watching them, and the powdery snow lay without melting on the caps and shoulders of the men and the shawls of the women.
That long trip through the deep snowhad taken all the endurance out of him.
They made a tunnel under the snow to the henhouse, with walls so solid that grandmother and I could walk back and forth in it.
The snow did not stop falling all day, or during the night that followed.
As the snow gets deep, many deer congregate in the depths of the forest, and keep a place trodden down, which grows larger as they tramp down the snow in search of food.
Snow fell for the first time during the night, and it is freezing so hard this morning that the hot water thrown over the stones outside for cleansing purposes becomes ice at once.
And yet I believe she is human," added Philter, with a significant glance at Lord Lavendale, "and that a passionate heart beats under thesnow of that majestic bosom.
As they reached the summit of the shingle-bank, they could see in front of them the black line of the sea, and on the beach, where the white of the snow and the white of the roaring surf merged together, a group of men.
They laid their burden by the fire, where the snow had melted away, and it was a man.
There was a half moon hidden behind those thin, fleecy clouds, which carry the snow across the North Sea and cast it noiselessly upon the low-lying coast, from Thanet to the Wash, which knows less rain and more snow than any in England.
The north-east wind seared their faces like a hot iron, but the snowhad ceased falling.
The snow is soft--I reckon you better wait a week.
The snow thinned, the streams sang clear, and considerably before noon the little train of worn and hungry horses came out upon the grassy shore of a small lake to bask in genial sunshine.
Oh, a little wind and snow don't count," he replied, carelessly.
He feared no hardship, and acknowledged no superior on the trail except Pierce, who was as invincible to cold and snow as a grizzly bear, and his chief diversions were these trips into the wild.
To the west the top of a snow mountain could be seen, low down, and against it a thin column of blue smoke was rising.
The keen-edged wind drove particles of snowbefore it and pricked his heated face like needle-points.
Through the thicksnow Mueller saw the illuminated windows of the guard house, and inside the small detachment of men were peacefully slumbering.
Down below, where the pathway opened into the street, he now and then saw a dark shape reel past and disappear in the night like a shadow, the soft snow deadening the footfall.
On the summit of the hill, whence he could discern the barracks, the snow glistening on its roof, he cast a last look at the spot where he had spent so many years.
It rose unto a glow, then died away In fitful gleams; on drooping eyelids lay A weight, yet 'neath those heavy veils of snow The dark eyes quivered with a restless glow.
The roses drooped in her gold-brown hair, And quivered and glowed in the sun-lit air; The jewels gleamed on her hands of snow And dazzled my eyes with their fitful glow.
It is really more like a big drop of snow than a flower!
The very sides and craggy summits of the lofty mountains were cased with snow and ice; but the quantity which lay in the valleys is incredible; and at the bottom of the bays the coast was terminated by a wall of ice of considerable height.
At first it blew a gentle gale; but afterwards increased so as to bring us under double-reefed top-sails, and was attended with snow and sleet.
The wind blew in squalls, attended with snow and sleet, and we had a great sea to encounter.
This must have been occasioned by a current; and the melting of the snow increasing, the inland waters will cause a stream to run out of most of these inlets.
Except the craggy summits of the hills, the greatest part was covered with trees and shrubs, or some sort of herbage, and there was little or no snow on it.
Snow fell heavily during the night, and as usual we woke up with icicles hanging from our mustaches, eyelashes, and hair.
It showed strongly defined ledges and terraces marking its stratification, and these were covered with horizontal layers of snow of brilliant white in contrast to the dark, ice-worn rock.
The green was quite refreshing to the eyes, tired as we were of snow and reddish barren mountains and desert-like stretches of land.
As these rivers came directly from the snows, the water was very cold, and often three or four feet deep, owing to the thawing of the snow and ice during the day.
Why does snow so kill the landscape and blot out our interest in it?
And it often happens that he is stoned for his pains by the yet unpacified element, and is compelled literally to "shut up" beneath a fall of snow or a heavy frost.
Yet they will strike up as cheerily amid the driving snow as if they had just been told that to-morrow is the first day of March.
At its best, April is the tenderest of tender salads made crisp by ice or snow water.
The frost was gone from the ground before the snow was gone from the surface.
Something besides the ice and snowmelts and runs away with the spring floods.
In its plumage it reflects the winter landscape,--an expanse of white surmounted or streaked with gray and brown; a field of snow with a line of woods or a tinge of stubble.
They had come from the West, and were all covered with snow and ice, like soldiers with the dust of battle upon them.
Where in the fields the melted snow Leaves hollows warm and wet, Ere many days will sweetly blow The first blue violet.
William had ridden forth in the driving storm of snow and ice for the doctor, who lived ten miles distant across the mountain.
At last there was an end of endurance; the hours lifted their leaden wings and hurried away; the old midwife changed to a dragon-faced butterfly, and I knew no more till the dawn and the snow spread a pale light over the world outside.
