His truck loaded with evergreens stalled in a big snowdrift about four miles from here,” Mr. Jeffert revealed.
Before Miss Gordon or the other girls could stop her, she scrambled over a big snowdrift and crept through the dark to the kitchen window.
How satisfied the stars that began to twinkle through the clearing veil of the snowdrift dying down, that the work of hiding London from them had been done thoroughly and well, and that they might shine on something clean at last!
He plodded on, driving aside the dry white snowdrift with his feet, and cogitating.
Paul and Jerry found it pretty hard to keep up with the other boys during the last three-quarters of a mile, especially when they struck a poorly broken snowdrift or a stretch of ground covered with rocks or rough ice.
Yes," continued Miles in the attitude of a stage threat, "and if we can't find a lake around here we can find a deep snowdrift to throw him into.
And the blind whitesnowdrift climbed, fed, like human circumstance, from disconnected atoms impelled by a common law.
Lying in his bunk against the wall, the packer watched this sentinel snowdrift grow and become human and bold and familiar.
Even the elements were kindly; an Amplach twin buried under a snowdrift in high altitudes reappeared smilingly in the spring in all its wooden and painted integrity.
The Indians wanted to know how this was to be accomplished, andSnowdrift suddenly realized that she did not know.
They struck into the trail, and two hours later Snowdrift succeeded in bring down one of the cows with a long shot as the three animals trotted across a frozen muskeg.
Only Snowdrift and old Wananebish kept up to the work of cutting and hauling the wood, tending the fires, and throwing out the gravel.
Snowdrift had listened with breathless attention and when Brent concluded she was silent for a long time.
Trapping and hunting were forgotten in the new found craze for gold, and it became necessary for Snowdrift to tole off hunters for the day, as the supply of meat shrank to an alarming minimum.
With a dry sob, Snowdriftturned to Brent: "We must go!
Snowdrift reasoned that if there were gold to the westward there would be gold also to the eastward, especially as Wananebish knew that it was there--had even found some of it long years ago.
Yes I lit in a snowdrift all right when I jumped out the window--but how did you know?
Snowdrift regarded him with a puzzled frown: "Is it all make-believe, in the land of the white man?
Snowdrift fastened the heavy veil over her face, and taking her arm, Malone piloted her through the bar-room and up the stairs.
The publisher waded through a shrunken snowdrift to a side door of the building.
Penny landed in a snowdrift at the river bank, her parka awry, goggles hanging on one ear.
The augmented snowdrift moves down the valley—birth of the glacier.
The enlargedsnowdrift which feeds this ice stream is called the névé or firn.
Snowdrift hollowing its bed by nivation and building a delta (at the left).
While we watched them from our peak a mile above, a buck and two does with a calf left the herd, and began to come towards the very snowdrift on which the four deer were lying when we made the fatal mistake.
One day I saw a flock deliberately cross a snowdrift when they could easily have gone around it.
But the sheep were vigorous from good feed and a mild winter and thissnowdrift was across the game trail on which they were slowly travelling.
On the top of the snowdrift a cotton-tail was feeding happily off the bark of the small limbs.
Often ere he will give up his empire old Winter rushes fiercely buck and hurls a snowdrift at the shrinking form of Spring, yet step by step he is compelled to retreat northward, and spends the summer month within the Arctic circle.
In fact, where the bright, blazing fire was so cheerily throwing out its heat and warmth when they were tucked in by the faithful Indian, now a greatsnowdrift occupied the very spot.
The guide on his snowshoes, in tramping out the trail had near the bottom made a little turn to the left in order to escape the deepest snowdrift which the wind had there piled up.
Faith, and I know," said Sam; "for was I not fairly frightened out of my wits by a lot of them one night when travelling late to the camp to drive over a snowdrift into which they were burying themselves?
We had to cross a snowdrift over the river, in which was a large fissure, which, however, only required nerve to cross safely.
I pursued with Phuttoo--lost all traces, and turned, when we saw Subhan and Mooktoo in hot chase across a snowdrift bridging the stream, on which we soon detected the bloody tracks of the bear.
The sphere lay behind us on its dwindling snowdrift thirty feet away.
Just in front of me thesnowdrift had fallen away and made a sort of ditch.
About fifty yards further on the tracks disappeared in a hole in a snowdrift beside a log.
A dead hen that had been in cold storage in a snowdrift for a couple of months was dug out and laid beside a stump near the creature's hole.
He would be here to-day if I had not threatened to lock him out and keep him standing in a snowdrift until June.
He turned her over into a snowdrift and ran off whistling; springing up she brushed the snow off face and hands and with a very serious face entered the kitchen.
Then, out of a big snowdrift a hundred yards from camp, popped Sandy, covered from head to foot with snow.
At some distance from the Eskimo igloos, a huge, solidsnowdrift was located.
When we came up I could see that this igloo was built on a long snowdrift that stretches clear to a ravine on the right.
There came a soft swishing sound from thesnowdrift he had been about to inspect, and he whirled to see a dark form bearing down upon him.
A few minutes later they had cautiously broken out of the snowdrift and were crawling along the snow bank away from the encampment.
Several feet away from the first, on the other side of a long, low, snowdrift they found the next track.
He slipped, and before he could catch himself he had whizzed down, flat on his back, to come up with a bump in a hard snowdrift at the bottom of the slope.
So warm did the argument become that they passed without seeing a middle-aged gentleman, short and rather heavy set, struggling through a snowdrift on foot, and carrying in his hand a dilapidated leather bag.
My car's been stalled in a snowdrift downtown since early this morning, and I have Ed's Peggy in a sleigh.
Jennie Stone was pried out of the snowdrift last of all, and they all went to the bottom of the hill where Bob Steele sat with his back against a tree trunk, waiting, as he said, for the "world to stop turning around so fast.
They spread the nutmeats evenly in the pans and then set the pans carefully on a snowdrift outside the back door to get thoroughly cold before the taffy was poured thinly over the nuts.
Here we are at noon, stuck in a snowdrift five miles west of Sherman, on a steep grade, with one hundred men shovelling in front of us.
The train, however, got no farther than Warsaw, where it stuck in a snowdrift eleven feet deep and a hundred long, but we might have kept that engagement at least.
We paid a man a dollar to take us to the station, and saw the train pull out while we were stuck in a snowdrift ten feet deep, with a dozen men trying to shovel a path for us; so we had to come back.
Bunny had a glimpse of torn papers and other refuse from the car falling into the snowdrift near the sleigh.
But Uncle Tad had pulled him down to a walk and guided him into the snowdrift just in time.
Snowdrift of the mountains, Spindrift of the sea, You shall keep your kingdoms; Joscelyn for me!
Snowdrift of the mountains, Spindrift of the sea, Let us part the treasure Of the world in three.
The first deafening roar of the blast drowned the shout; but before the snowdrift blinded him, Lawrence had observed the wave of the hand and the anxious look.
