snowbanks

• “We just got through another huge snowfall and the snowbanks are as tall as me.”

  Coconut Custard Squares

• “Cars with studded tyres, cars bouncing off snowbanks, head-up displays for the drivers, and the first ever global sporting event covered entirely in the infrared part of the spectrum.”

  Archive 2009-02-01

• “After researching this place, I discovered that it was a winter resort at the foot of Mont Blanc in the Italian Alps. This was not Mt. Hood in layers of your old jeans and sweatshirts — this was Audrey Hepburn & Cary Grant in sunglasses, sipping white wine backed by ski lodges and snowbanks.”

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• “Emanuel, though not yet in charge of any city-owned snowplows, is still capable of shoveling out cars, extracting stranded citizens from snowbanks, and making note of his ascetic breakfast "Advil and Diet Coke" using Twitter.”

  The Huffington Post: The Countdown: Carol The 'Wimp'.. Rahm To The Rescue?

• “Thrilled about this new discovery he leaped & bounded with all his might through the snowbanks, sticking his nose into the snow like an ostrich in the sand & catching snowballs only to have them disintegrate on his tonque.”

  Best Gun Dog Contest

• “Or else searching the snowbanks for a statue of the Infant of Prague I just bought on Ebay and that the Fed-ex guy handed over to my dog.”

  Blogging when I should be novelling

• “Even the earliest signs of spring, with the parting of snowbanks to reveal brown muck and the long-forgotten detritus of last year, bring me a joy, a leavening of the soul that cannot be matched.”

  Spring: A Reverie in Brown

• “I long for walks unimpeded by snowbanks and treacherous ice patches, and the potential to take a toddler to a playground.”

  Spring: A Reverie in Brown

• “Helsinki is the northernmost capital in the 17-member euro-zone, a city of snowbanks and pine and white birch.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Europe's Conservative Leaders Call for Conditions on Bailouts

• “Pop culture is full of loyal, dedicated dogs: Balto, Lassie, that St. Bernard who's always pulling people out of snowbanks.”

  The Washington Post: Jon Katz's new dog-centered novel, 'Rose in a Storm'

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