snow-dust

• “Heavy snowstorms are frequent on the coast, but inland during the snow blizzards it is impossible to say whether the whirling snow-dust is falling from the air or being swept from the ground.”

  Perspective of Antarctica in 1911

• “Round and round in the snow they went, so fast that it was impossible for Ruth to see which was dog and which was cat, their paws throwing up a cloud of snow-dust that almost hid the combatants.”

  Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods

• “Amid a cloud of snow-dust she shot over the yawning edge of the chasm and disappeared.”

  Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box

• “After a day of bronco-busting in the corral, or of riding hour after hour, head on into the driven snow-dust, there was a sense of real achievement when night fell, and a consciousness of strength.”

  Roosevelt in the Bad Lands

• “In the soft springtime the stars were glorious in our eyes each night before we fell asleep; and in the winter we rode through blinding blizzards, when the driven snow-dust burnt our faces.”

  Roosevelt in the Bad Lands

• “In some places cracks and fissures filled with snow-dust traversed the body of the ice, and in other places long strings of beaded air-bubbles had become entangled in the process of freezing.”

  The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

• “In the soft springtime the stars were glorious in our eyes each night before we fell asleep; and in the winter we rode through blinding blizzards, when the driven snow-dust burned our faces.”

  IV. In Cowboy Land

• “For ever close upon his heels came following forms and voices with the whirling snow-dust.”

  Four Weird Tales

• “Then a great cloud of snow-dust burst in their faces, half blinding them: and, with the roar of an express train, the avalanche sped down the ravine; burying the ice-slope they had just crossed; and obliterating their footsteps as man's work is obliterated by the soundless avalanche of the years.”

  The Great Amulet

• “The chill discomfort of snow melting on their faces woke the men, one by one, at an unearthly hour, to find their whole world shrouded in white, and a mist of snow-dust still falling.”

  The Great Amulet

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