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  • So we went to this place where Muddy Waters or somebody really famous was playing and when we left we were both so drunk that Roger cranked up his car and leapt up on top of a snow-bank and got stuck.

    Hey, Boys, Bandits! Jerry Ratch 2010

  • Granted, the bulb has tucked itself* in tight against the foundation, where it gets benefit of both our furnace and the reflected heat of the sun, and the snow-bank starts about a foot away, but the flower HAS OPENED!

    Still not spring jhetley 2009

  • I will not drive a snow-bank colored car in Maine...

    Actual warmth? jhetley 2008

  • The simple answer to the snow-bank observaton is: How tall were you when your were a kid?

    The HO-83 Hygro- thermometer « Climate Audit 2007

  • She strayed away and was found in a snow-bank, by some soldiers going out to dig a grave.

    Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 Edmund B. Tuttle

  • The thought made Faxon hasten on, and a moment later he was stooping over a motionless figure huddled against the snow-bank.

    Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

  • For what else but self-confessed failures are these thin wooden or cheap brick walls, temporarily disguised as massive stone, -- this roof, leaking from the snow-bank retained by the Gothic parapet, or the insufficient slope which the "Italian style" demands?

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

  • The boat was soon dragged from its hiding place, and Heinrich paddled it to the spot where the Goat-mother was resting on a snow-bank.

    Soap-Bubble Stories For Children Fanny Barry

  • It was of white sand, that resembled, at a distance, a huge snow-bank.

    A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland

  • Frank's bidding, leaped from the rear and landed unharmed in a snow-bank.

    The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service James R. [pseud.] Driscoll

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