snow-flake

` Son, your words are true; but it were evil mating, like the water with the sand, like the snow-flake with the sun.

The Sun of the Wolf 2010

'Son, your words are true; but it were evil mating, like the water with the sand, like the snow-flake with the sun.

The Son of the Wolf 2010

Cosette applied herself to her work once more, but for a quarter of an hour she felt her heart leaping in her bosom like a big snow-flake.

Les Miserables 2008

Silver-haired, like a snow-flake thrown On the greens of the springing year?

'William Cullen Bryant: Author of America' 2008

Had Claquesous melted into the shadows like a snow-flake in water?

Les Miserables 2008

Below was cloudland and storm, a great drift of tumbled weather going hard away to the north-east, and the air about him was clear and cold and serene save for the faintest chill breeze and a rare, drifting snow-flake.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

Anyway, increasing the CAFE standards would be much more effective than decreasing my personal driving, since it would side-step the snow-flake in an avalanche collective action problem.

When do you not mind breaking the law? 2005

The snow-flake grew larger and larger till it took the form of a maiden, dressed in finest white gauze.

The Pink Fairy Book 2003

It began to snow, and every snow-flake that fell on her was to her as a whole shovelful thrown on one of us, for we are so big, and she was only an inch high.

The Yellow Fairy Book 2003

On his broad back, flaxen-haired Flask seemed a snow-flake.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002