ice-crystals

For months, the sleeping earth has been dreaming dreams of expansive ice-crystals and becoming more porous, all in anticipation of Spring.

Our familiar friend Winter, who will never leave | Radical Futures Project 2010

TKtk Cirrus clouds, formed of ice-crystals, in the high atmosphere In its sleek, small format, "The Cloud Collector's Handbook" is meant to be a practical guide that can be tucked away in a pocket, ready for those moments when you spot a juicy cloud but don't know what to call it.

Cirrus Concerns Peter Pesic 2011

Simply to close her eyes and to feel herself enclosed by the Divine Presence; then gradually her fears, her yearning anxieties for others, melted away like ice-crystals in a warm ocean.

Adam Bede 2004

A more beautiful morning it would be difficult to imagine: radiantly clear, with thick ice everywhere, as far as the eye could see; the lanes of water between the floes gleamed in the sun, and the ice-crystals glittered like thousands of diamonds.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

Senator Sexton's eyes flash-froze, two ice-crystals boring into her.

Deception Point Brown, Dan, 1964- 2001

Elspeth and Vree Ilwo Elspeth sighed, her breath streaming out in a fog of ice-crystals, and pulled the ends of the scarf wrapped around her neck a little tighter.

Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996

Elspeth and Vree Ilwo Elspeth sighed, her breath streaming out in a fog of ice-crystals, and pulled the ends of the scarf wrapped around her neck a little tighter.

Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996

She folded her wings and dove without thinking, spreading her wing-membranes at the last possible moment, and landing beside the spot, backwinging and throwing up clouds of powdery snow and ice-crystals.

The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991

The Bridge was thirty miles high and eleven miles wide and fifty-four miles long-but it was only a - sliver, an intricate and fragile arrangement of ice-crystals beneath the bulg -- big, racing tornadoes.

Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957

In moments of sober reflection our resolutions are like prisms of basalt, that will not be riven by the lightning, but which in the hour of real trial prove to be ice-crystals that a sunbeam can dissolve.

Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius