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  • XXI IN CONTRAST TO the ice-rain and the gloom of the day before, the morning dawns bright and clear, the sun-thrusting its light through the sole gap in the eastern peaks of the Westhorns and thus through the narrow windows of the Cup and Bowl long before half the travelers have struggled awake.

    The Towers of the Sunset Modesitt, L. E. 1992

  • He staggers on, lifting feet that weigh stones as the ice-rain falls around him.

    The Towers of the Sunset Modesitt, L. E. 1992

  • After the ice-rain came the snow, thick and wet at first, then cold and fine.

    The Magic of Recluce Modesitt, L. E. 1991

  • Snow-rain and ice-rain; frost-formed snow-granules, driven along like shot, stinging and rattling against the tent-cloth, hissing in the fire; roar and groan of the great wind among the oaks of the forest.

    Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867

  • We should be hitting light snows by 2300 hours tonight in this area and it could be anything from snow to ice-rain after that. "

    Code Three Rick Raphael 1956

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