Some of the snowdrifts were truly immense, one, they reckoned, measuring twenty feet in height.
The snowdrifts were truly terrific, and even on snowshoes they made slow progress.
We were wading through deep snowdrifts most of the time while witnessing this remarkable scene.
But Bobby looked out and saw the fields still covered with snow, and saw the huge snowdrifts like mountains and castles along the fences and the whirling snowflakes in the air, and thought, "Robin is mistaken this time.
Then he and Rover, the Big Shepherd Dog, went across the field to the snowdrifts in the fence corners.
There were the snowdrifts like mountains and castles along the fences.
The corpses are hidden in snowdrifts or crammed through ice holes in the river with shot weighted to their feet.
As for Paul himself, he most of all regretted the fact that on account of the deep snowdrifts and the bitter cold he would probably be unable to get any more flashlight pictures.
As evening approached the fury of the gale increased, and huge snowdrifts formed around the little home and completely cut off exit by means of the kitchen door.
Never, in all his life, had he seen snowdrifts so deep and never so stubborn.
He was out in the cold, bitter night, plowing his way through snowdrifts three and four feet deep, bound for the hotel next door, the nearest place of refuge.
The snow was like the finest powder, driving through every crack and nail hole, and piling snowdrifts within the houses as well as without.
Solid snowdriftsformed in the grove while this slow work of transportation was going on.
Sometimes, where the snowdrifts were deep, when they attempted to pass over, they somehow or other would get the snowshoes so tangled up that over they would go on their heads.
Strong south winds blew frequently, and under their magic influences the great snowdrifts rapidly lessened and then disappeared.
It won't be much harder to break through these snowdrifts than it is to try to find our way around them in this wind and darkness.
The exertion of plowing through the snowdrifts had tired him dreadfully, and he was trembling in the legs so that he could scarcely stand.
On all sides could be seen snowdrifts and ridges of snow piled in curiously fantastic shapes.
It was impossible to proceed quickly now, for they had to make their way between snowdriftsand the stems and projecting branches.
Suddenly the snowdriftsbegan to whirl round madly: the wind blew in gusts; it buffeted the side of the sledge; it howled underneath; it took the men's breath away.
The March sun made the snowdrifts appear so bright and smooth that by contrast the smallest bush seemed like a wood, and the slightest unevenness a hill.
And in the night Kabibonokka piled the snowdrifts high about the lodge of Shingebis, and shook the lodge-pole and wailed around the smoke-flue until the flames flared and the ashes were scattered on the floor.
But his brother, the fierce and cruel Kabibonokka, lived among the eternal ice caves and the snowdrifts of the north.
Successive storms, mountains of jammed ice, and deep snow, interrupted our progress and lengthened the course over circuitous wastes of snowdrifts and blackened our horizon.
Tremendous snowdrifts and persistent gales from the west made traveling next to impossible, and, with no game and no food supply in prospect, I knew that to remain idle would be suicidal.
Even this shallow stream heaped snowdrifts everywhere where there was any protection from the wind, and buried more certainly, if less rapidly, than the drifting snow of the storm, exposed objects and trampled footpaths.
The great snowdrifts in the forests disappeared and the ice on the river broke into large pieces.
The Ice King called forth the keen wind from the northern sky, and piled the snowdrifts so high in the forests that it was most difficult to supply the wigwams with game.
Wrap you up warm while yet the snowdrifts cover the earth path, and flee to your lodge in the north sky.
The canvas walls were covered with blubber-soot, and with the snowdrifts accumulating round the hut its inhabitants were living in a state of perpetual night.
On the evening of the next day we wallowed through snowdrifts for a mile, to meet an appointment to preach in a schoolhouse, and on the way I got one of my ears frozen.
A few cloudlets of snowdrifts and a scattering of mere tufts of snow stood out distinctly on this big, bare slope.
They were so nearly out of supplies that they could not wait for snowdrifts to melt out of the trail.
All of them at this place are dwarfed, many distorted, some crushed to the earth, flattened out upon the ground like pressed flowers, by the snowdrifts that have so long lain upon them.
In the country, traffic was completely suspended, the snowdrifts being as high as the hedges.
The road being impassable at many points he mounted the hedges, and occasionally losing his footing he fell into snowdrifts many feet high, being completely buried.
They could watch it until it became no more than a delicate white thread, and at last it could not be distinguished from the snowdrifts that lay in the ravine near its source.
Half a score of times the engine became firmly wedged in snowdrifts in traversing as many miles.
Lo, under the trees meanwhile the snowdrifts had melted, and little green leaves were poking up through the frozen ground.
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