Dollars are not to be picked up easily anywhere, and you and I are going to find out the full value of them before the thaw begins again," he said.
Through the rifting smoke, we could see their line sway to and fro; then it broke like a thaw in a great river.
Breckinridge's army, in the mountains above, had recently dissolved in a great thaw and break-up, and these were the small fragments of ice floating down toward Virginia.
Upon her brow we gazed with awe, And loved, and wished to love, in vain But when the snow begins to thaw We shun with scorn the miry plain.
Unperceived by the eye, the cube began to thaw and to swell.
It needed a half-year before it would thaw out sufficiently to permit the body to peer through.
No sooner had I made my escape from Aunt Horsingham's room, than, in utter defiance of the cold thaw just commencing, I put my bonnet on and made the best of my way to the moat.
Would that I had an angel's tongue to win from your soul some echo, thaw your frozen heart.
But even Edwin's patient efforts to thaw his shy schoolmate, were not entirely successful.
The air was mild, as if a thaw were about to set in, and the snow over which they walked to the grave, yielded noiselessly under their feet.
If they fail, the sun Has but one joy--to thaw out wrecks, and trace Man's progress where alone it can be done.
Was not Nature's thaw From his heart heat for truth, Eternal Law?
We were managing to freeze it a little at nights, but it would thaw out during the day.
But what was dreaded more than the frost and snow was the thaw which would follow, and how every man prayed that his Battalion would move into Divisional Reserve the day the thaw came!
This feat so impressed the authorities that by the time the thaw had fairly set in, white patrol jackets were awaiting collection from ordnance.
Let's get a fire going andthaw him out in a hurry!
They were all kept in scrupulous repair, though here and there the frost and thaw of many winters had heaved a fence out of plumb, and threatened the poise of the monumental urns of painted pine on the gate-posts.
By noon there was a driving mist and the thaw was on.
The January thawmay come and be followed by open weather, as so many are prophesying, but we have had sleighing and everything else worth while that winter can offer.
The January thaw has arrived, and up to the time of writing it has proven itself an entirely competent thaw.
It might have been much more exciting had it not been for a slight thaw on a previous afternoon which enabled us to see that all the fox tracks were, at least, a day old.
Our fire is small and insignificant, but it warms us famously, and our hands thaw again.
A thaw in the middle of winter is the most disagreeable change that can be imagined.
The sharp thaw had persisted through the day, and a thin, misty rain was falling and converting the ill-paved roads into seas of mud.
The air outside had been singularly mild all day; the thaw was persisting, and a south wind came across the Channel--from France.
By the time the thaw comes, a good deal of the river in front of town gets so you know how it looks, just like the town itself.
But before the thaw comes the snow blows off some of the smooth places and banks up against the rough places on the ice in drifts.
The weather had fairly broken now: the thaw had set in all over the country, and the ground was in a dreadful condition, and scarcely passable for troops, and especially waggons and artillery.
At length, the expected thaw commenced with some rain, about two o’clock on Tuesday, January 13th; and before night the streets were almost overflowed.
Our thawwas mild, the cold not chased away, But lost in kindly heat of lengthen'd day.
Or say, ye powers, my peace to crown, Shall I thaw myself, and drown 25 Among the foaming billows?
Sweet, one kiss To thaw this deadness that congeals my soul.
But the thaw proved an advantage in one way, for it opened up the roads that had been well-nigh impassable, and mail and other supplies came through.
The thaw was over, there had been a spell of cold weather, and Deerfield was icebound.
However, on looking out before going to bed, he was comforted to find the wind coming from the south, and apparently a thaw beginning.
The last fall rains had cut it under; the first spring thaw would have brought it down, had not my weight been thrown upon it.
So it kept on for about a million years, until once when the spring came and the south winds blew, it began to thaw up.
Then it would thaw a little, and streams of water would run over the snow; then it would freeze again, and pack it into solid ice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thaw" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
