Then the slaves hastened to dig out the canoe, and they drew it with mighty labour, for they were weak from fasting, over the snows to the shore, and there they launched it without sail or paddle, with all the people rejoicing.
These strange plants are quite plump with stored water in the spring when the snows melt, but they gradually lose this plumpness during the dry summer, and by autumn many seem lifeless.
When the snows melt and the sun warms the earth, the seeds that survived the winter germinate.
We have seen in what infinitely varied ways the need of concealment has led to the modification of animal colours, whether among polar snows or sandy deserts, in tropical forests or in the abysses of the ocean.
High up among the alpine heights his gentian spreads its lakes of blue; amid the snows of the Himalayas his rhododendrons gleam with crimson light.
Inasmuch as the Jordan rises in the mountains, and is constantly fed by the melting snows of Hermon, some philosophical students have argued that the water must necessarily be very cold at all times.
We were informed that we should be left at the point where the perpetual snows began, that the Tibetans would give us no food, no clothes and no blankets, and that we should be abandoned to cross over the frontier as best we could.
They were often quite deep, and the water was so cold from the melting snows that we were nearly frozen each time we waded through them.
A little rivulet, hardly six inches wide, descended among stones in the centre of the valley we were following, and was soon swollen by other rivulets from melting snows of the mountains on either side.
After a while there was yet another bitterly cold stream to ford, two small lakes to skirt, and three more deep rivers to wade, with cold water from the snows reaching up to our chests.
He dragged me through Europe in blazing heat and blinding snows when I was sick and unfit to move.
Ah, she understood now how Emmeline Labiche had felt constrained to seek her lover from the snows of Canada to the moss-veiled oaks of Louisiana.
Then Lavarcam went her way, and returned to the palace at Emain Macha and told Conor that the cruel winds and snows of Alba had robbed Deirdrê of all her loveliness, so that she was no more a thing to be desired.
Will’s own ideas, conceived among the virgin snows and pure air of the high Alps, were a trifle too ethereal and a trifle too virginal for that practical manager.
In the early part of the next week, Will proposed one day they should mount the hills behind St Valentin, in search of a rare fern he was anxious to secure before the snows of winter.
Her own Tyrol looked more beautiful than ever as they passed, with its unmelted snows lying thick on the mountains.
Snows that were so deep that a man might be buried in them had to be crossed.
He was following the bed of a stream, which was nearly dry, as the snows had largely disappeared from the slopes of the mountains.
Catherine Outasoren has come back from the land where the corn is always growing, where the snows can never fall; she has come back to bear you the word of the Great Mountain.
Wind is not strong enough, thunder is not loud enough, waves are not fierce enough, snows are not cold enough, powder is not swift enough to break it.
Without her pilgrim staff she rose, Her weeds of darkness cast aside; More dazzling than Olympian snows The beauty that those weeds did hide.
E'en now the snows are at your feet, And piled a hundred times your height, Close, close beside your face so sweet!
But there was the same aurora borealis, the same bright starlight and brighter moonlight, the same fierce snows and howling gales.
They are fed from the melting snows and periodical storms of the higher Andes, and most of them are completely dry part of the year.
Falling snows and piercing winds admonished him that the time had come again to retire to winter quarters.
This was a wild mountain stream, swollen into a foaming torrent, by melting snows and recent rains.
Before the snows melt, his warriors will sweep away your villages as the fire does the prairie in the autumn.
The returning sun of spring poured its warmth into the sheltered valley, melting the snows and releasing the streams.
It was glorious in summer, but when the snows of winter fell and the roads were blocked, it was not quite so agreeable.
Here, the waters from the melting snows upon the lofty mountains about the basin and those of the occasional heavy rains have things their own way.
The rivers are muddy after every rain, and even the water from the melting snows picks up some of the soil and flows away with a dirty, yellow color.
The headwaters of this river are among lofty mountains, where the melting snows and summer showers make the waters of the river higher in the early summer than at any other season of the year.
We all were lifted to the paradise of winners as we stepped over the snows of a destiny for which we had risked life and willingly suffered the tortures of an icy hell.
Still later, as the wintersnows blanketed the pastures and the bitter storms of night swept the cheerless drifts, they dug long tunnels under the snow for food, and when the storms were too severe remained housed in these feeding dugouts.
The snows sparkled with the promise of double days and midnight suns.
Over the sparkling snows the post-midnight sun glowed like at noon.
Soon a crackling sound on the snows gave the battle call, and with a little black nose extended from a long neck, a vicious creature advanced.
We hurriedly freed their traces and beat the cementedsnows from their furs with sticks.
We made several efforts to cross the bay ice, but cracked ice, huge uplifted blocks and deep snows compelled a retreat to the ice-foot.
There were no encouraging signs of life; only old imprints of bears and foxes were left on the surface of the cheerless snows at each camp.
In the course of a few hours the cheerful light faded, the snows darkened to earthy fields, and out of the north came a smoky tempest.
The bear thieves dug under the snows over our heads and snatched blocks of blubber fuel from under our very eyes at the port without a consciousness of wrongdoing.
The strong winds and drifting snowsnecessitated the habit of peeping out of the corners of the eyes.
The den was buried under the winter snowsand did not disturb the creature, but the size of the pile of meat did disturb its curiosity.
The overflow of perpetual snows descended into the gorges, making five overhanging glaciers.
Drifting clouds and wind-driven snows soon screened the tops of black mountains.
A track had not yet been broken through the deep snows ahead.
As the miles clicked away beneath the shining steel rails, the snows deepened.
They wanted to know how deep the snows were at the valley, how far the Gordon farm was from the station, and what luggage they should take.
In Minnesota, where my grandparents live, the snows are very heavy too,” said Miss Gordon.
However, with snows banked deep about the Gordon farm, the Brownies were thinking more about Christmas than of what they would do the following summer.
The snows {310} fell upon them eighteen feet deep on a level, many died and others turned cannibal.
May the sands of your life run slowly and calmly to the end, the snows of age's winter following safely and protectingly upon you.
In the legend of the origin of Gilgit there figures a fairy king whose soul is in the snows and who can only perish by fire.
Only once a year, when the last snows melt and the earth turns black, do these external souls of wizards appear in the shape of animals among the dwellings of men.
So he refused to ratify the treaty, and when the winter snows had melted, sent another expedition to enforce his claim to rule.
The difficulty of traveling through deep snows is overcome by the use of the snow-shoe, which enables the wearer to walk upon the surface of the untrodden snow.
He was sent to a dungeon twelve feet by twenty, built wholly of stone, with a narrow window, high up on one side, looking out on the snows of Switzerland.
He who holds the winds in his power, gathered the snows from the north and blew them upon his six hundred thousand men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
