We have a muddy walk for a few hundred yards before we strike a dry trail, and simultaneously the white walls of Altascar's appear like a snowbank before us.
Reaching the Fergus hotel, Penny parked her skis upright in a snowbank near the front door, and went inside.
As she retrieved her skis from the snowbank she was surprised to see Francine standing close by, obviously waiting for her.
From the other side of the canyon a great mountain rose sharply, and its summit was covered with a vast snowbank which lay upon a great mass of ice.
I take it that a snowbank might be ice at the bottom, perhaps, but that if it doesn't move it isn't a glacier.
But the train didn't move, and the snow didn't cover it up, and it was found lying against the snowbank this afternoon.
A long time passed--how long, Eaton could not have told; he noted only that during it the shadows on the snowbank outside the window appreciably changed their position.
There was right smart of a slide across the track, and the crew, I understands, diagnosed it jus' fo' a snowbank and done bucked right into it.
They had come from the front of the train and had passed under his window only an instant before, scrutinizing the snowbank beside the car carefully and looking under the car--the brakeman even had crawled under it; now they went on.
I crouched behind a snowbank beyond the Butte for some time waiting for a rabbit which I saw to come within range, something which he did not do, and was so interested in this that I did not notice what was happening to my feet.
I crept very cautiously over the snowbank behind Hawkey's and Taggart's till I came to Fitzsimmons's.
Between February 3 and 5 he shifted to Area C east ofSnowbank Lake, 11 miles northwest of Area A.
He sat with his back to a snowbank which afforded some shelter and imagined from his sensations that the temperature must be about fifty degrees below zero.
It crackled fiercely as the flame licked about it, and sitting between the snowbank and the fire, the men kept fairly warm, but a white haze drove past their shelter and eddying in now and then covered them with snow.
Like a diver from a springboard, Tim went head first, and backward, into a snowbank beside the road.
It was the sleeve of a man's rough coat thrust out of the snowbank that brought this last cry to the child's lips.
Who Aunt Sue was or why the snowbank should be hers is more than I know, but her snowbank thus appears in the sky before a coming winter storm, and has been known as such to the country folk of my neighborhood for many generations.
Aunt Sue's snowbank had circled the horizon and was rising steadily toward the zenith.
For a little the world is young again and Santa Claus no myth, even to graybeards in the Dorchester backwoods, when Aunt Sue's snowbank comes tumbling home through the pine tops.
Do you suppose that the sight of you on your head in a snowbank with your legs waving in the wind was something to make them weep?
The deer are surrounded and driven into a snowbank many feet deep, in which the affrighted animals plunge until they nearly bury themselves.
This means of procuring deer is only adopted when the herd is near a convenient snowbank of proper depth.
Now, if you're going to say things like that to me all that twelve miles, I'm going to jump right out into this snowbank and stay there till somebody comes along and picks me up.
Philip ran swiftly, overtook her, picked her up in his arms as he passed, and plumped her down into a soft snowbank at the very top of the hill.
Before we can explain their presence here we must first tell what had happened to Curlie Carson since we left him huddled behind a snowbank with bullets singing over him.
The thing he did was to leap suddenly upon the crest of the snowbank with his hands held high in air, at the same time keeping a sharp eye on the attackers.
Having found the spring, it was easy to locate the spot in the snowbank where the oysters had been cached.
Well, there's a snowbank in that cañon, about two hundred yards off to the left of the spring.
The latter dodged, and the swirling steel buried itself in the snowbank beyond.
The conductor did not care a straw whether the obstreperous Jack lit on his head or his feet, hit a snowbank or a pile of ties.
I'd have pitched that Indian into a snowbank if it wasn't directly against orders.
Roly hastily swallowed the remnants of a biscuit, and finished a cup of tea which he had set in a snowbank to cool.
To be suitable for cutting into blocks the snowbank must have been formed by a single storm, for blocks which are cut from drifts composed of several layers break when cut.
Two small holes are frequently cut in the snowbank which forms the ledge, at about the middle of its height (see Fig.
The surface of thesnowbank which forms the foundation for the bed is covered with pieces of wood, oars, paddles, tent poles, &c.
Frequently thesnowbank on which the hut is built is deep enough so that the bed needs very little raising, and the passage is cut into the bank.
