Whole clouds of big soft snowflakes were whirling restlessly over the earth, unable to find a resting-place.
The snowflakesgreedily settled on his hair, his beard, his shoulders.
I am like a traveller lost in the snow, who begins to get stiff and to sink down while the snowflakes cover him.
The snowflakesthere glistened like descending jewels.
The wind tore triumphantly in, bearing a quantity ofsnowflakes that fluttered to the floor, expiring.
The loosened petals of the blackberry bloom drifted before him like snowflakes wafted by the south wind.
Her soft hair, white as falling snowflakes and as curly as a child's, was burnished by a silver gloss lovelier than the sheen of youth.
Alone indeed he imagined himself, while the cold air and the streaming snowflakes whistled past his flight.
When he saw the black drake far below him, shooting through the snowflakes like a missile, his fierce eyes flamed and narrowed, his wings gave one mighty beat and then half-closed, and he dropped into the cloudy murk of the storm belt.
It often happens that the particles after taking on the form of snowflakes encounter in their descent air so warm that they melt into raindrops, or, if only partly melted, reach the surface as sleet.
Striking against the walls and whispering something, quickly it fell upon the ground and drifted the white clouds of dry snowflakes across the street.
The wind fluttered her dress, clogged her footsteps, and drove pricking snowflakes into her face.
Arrows, thick as the snowflakes in winter, met them when they came on, and many of them bit the dust.
He fought, and his foes fell before his strong arm like snowflakes on the river, but he scalped them not.
The snowflakes fluttered upon stark bodies there, and shrouded them tenderly.
One sang the intricate patterns of snowflakes One sang the henna-tipped breasts of girls dancing and of yellow limbs rubbed with attar.
Then old Kris Kringle who loves a joke as well as the best, Dropped a handful of snowflakes into the oriole's empty nest.
Stormy clouds delirious straying Showers ofsnowflakes whirling white, And the pallid moonbeams waning-- Sad the heavens, sad the night!
Stormy clouds delirious straying, Showers of snowflakes whirling white, And the pallid moonbeams waning-- Sad the heavens, sad the night!
Do I Northward turn-- O'er the waste lands lone, Soft as eider down Are the snowflakes blown.
On you gleam Winter's snowflakes white and twinkle lambs of Summer-- On you the rosy sunlight glows, you know no deathly shudder!
If snowflakes fell in the shape, say, of the heart of Midlothian, it might be an accident.
But if snowflakes fell in the exact shape of the maze at Hampton Court, I think one might call it a miracle.
The weather grew colder and colder, and some days many snowflakes fell.
St. Nicholas was wiping some snowflakes out of his eyes, his breath made clouds of steam in the frosty air and his cheeks were as red as the reddest apple you ever saw.
But when he lifted up his mighty voice, and his words floated about us like the snowflakes of winter, we knew that we were listening to a divinely gifted man.
Meanwhile the clash of arms rang through the camp as the Greeks marched out, column after column, to battle, thick as autumnal leaves, or hovering snowflakesin winter.
Beautiful snowflakes are softly falling, They bring joy to young and old; Beautiful-snowflakes are watching and waiting For the Christmas chimes to toll.
Beautiful snowflakes are softly falling, Covering the ground with white; The flowers of summer have withered and faded, The robin has taken his flight.
Beautiful snowflakes are softly falling Like down from an angel's wings, Beautiful snowflakes are softly falling While the snow bird merrily sings.
Through the silent watches of the night The snowflakes fast and faster fall; And with swift and magic deftness, Spread a spotless mantle over all.
Beautiful snowflakes are softly falling, From the clouds they come whirling down, Like the dust from the floor of a crystal palace, And cover the frozen ground.
I, while thesnowflakes flew into my mouth the moment it was opened.
I should not have thought him at all the sort of person to be turned back by a puff of contrary wind, or a few snowflakes drifting into his face.
Great soft snowflakes are dropping slowly to the ground.
He can no longer see--but he feels how the great soft snowflakes are still falling.
On the wind in February Snowflakes float still, Half inclined to turn to rain, Nipping, dripping, chill.
And while she is singing, thesnowflakes are winging And whirling in eddies all through, all through.
Nothing was to be seen--that is, nothing but the flying snowflakesdropping into the wind-swept and white-capped waters beneath.
He glanced up at the gray sky, noting the swirl of snowflakes which settled down like a cloud.
Already occasional snowflakes were drifting down, and the chill was beginning to bite even through the warm fleece that lined mademoiselle's coat.
An hour or two more and visible snowflakes were falling in increasing numbers.
So through this floating, fairy film of snowflakes it is easy to see gnomes and sprites dancing and all the people of northland legends grow and vanish.
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