snowdrift

• They got stuck in a snowdrift, and they were too drunk to do anything about it except get in the back seat and huddle for warmth. —  AHMM,Jan-Feb2006
• This suggests that the yeast are playing what game theorists call a snowdrift game. —  EurekAlert! - Breaking News
• At this point a large, long snowdrift was encountered. —  The Albert Lea Tribune
• This as we were all upset into a snowdrift, the sleigh being three parts overturned, and our Jehu precipitated in the opposite direction How far are we from the next halting-place?" —  Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
• For the magician had cast a spell upon the man and the woman and they had become partridges and had been sheltering themselves from the storms of winter under a snowdrift, after the manner of their kind, and now came forth to greet the pleasant spring And these two were the first partridges, the foreparents of all the partridges that are now in the world That is a strange story," said the little boy. —  The Magic Speech Flower or Little Luke and His Animal Friends

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