snow-drifts

The old castle stood on a rugged slope, moonlit snow-drifts piled against its half-ruined walls, the windows dark and gaping.

LEVIATHAN MR. SCOTT WESTERFELD 2009

The depot was standing as we had left it, and no snow-drifts had formed about it, from which we concluded that the weather conditions had been quiet.

The South Pole~ Depot Journeys 2009

The old castle stood on a rugged slope, moonlit snow-drifts piled against its half-ruined walls, the windows dark and gaping.

LEVIATHAN MR. SCOTT WESTERFELD 2009

The small heaps in which the cases were piled proved unsatisfactory, as the passages between the different piles offered a fine site for snow-drifts.

The South Pole~ Preparing for Winter 2009

I rode up and down hills laboriously in snow-drifts, getting off often to ease my faithful Birdie by walking down ice-clad slopes, stopping constantly to feast my eyes upon that changeless glory, always seeing some new ravine, with its depths of color or miraculous brilliancy of red, or phantasy of form.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

The peaks above, which still catch the sun, are bright rose-red, and all the mountains on the other side are pink; and pink, too, are the far-off summits on which the snow-drifts rest.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

All about us on the sunlit slopes frothed and swayed the darting shrubs, the swelling cactus, the creeping lichens, and wherever the shade remained the snow-drifts lingered.

First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

Meanwhile the yellow lads were to stay upon the eastern highland, whence Uncle Reuben and myself had reconnoitred so long ago; and whence I had leaped into the valley at the time of the great snow-drifts.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

At first I could not walk at all, but floundered about most piteously, catching one shoe in the other, and both of them in the snow-drifts, to the great amusement of the girls, who were come to look at me.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

But, of course, this weather had put a stop to every kind of movement; for even if men could have borne the cold, they could scarcely be brought to face the perils of the snow-drifts.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004