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  • Other contestants entered commendable work, but nobody matched the scope and scale of LHR's vast tableau of 5 terminals, two runways,243 life-size jets, 120,000 passengers and one snow-plough, all realistically carved out of a single lump of ice.

    UK snow chaos: some make it home, but thousands still stranded 2010

  • As was also common with Alpine post-buses in winter, it had a huge angled snow-plough bolted on to the front of the chassis.

    Where Eagles Dare MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1967

  • It is with the greatest difficulty we can keep the lines clear in winter, and it is not sufficient to have an ordinary snow-plough attached to the engine, therefore, just as ice-breakers endeavour to keep the port of _Hangö_ open during winter, so these snow-ploughs ply to and fro along the railway lines, throwing up vast heaps of snow on each side, until they make a wall sometimes ten or twelve feet high.

    Through Finland in Carts

  • The tunnels would be through rock, and he believed that snow might easily be kept off the track with a snow-plough.

    Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

  • We had never before seen anything like it, and wondered if it could be an observatory on wheels, until we noticed that in the forepart of the train was a snow-plough, such as is to be seen on every engine in Norway during mid-winter, a plough which closely resembles an American cow-catcher.

    Through Finland in Carts

  • The fragments of rock which have fallen upon the surface of the ice or been torn from the rock over which it is moving, have been heaped up along its sides somewhat as a ridge of snow is raised along each side of the course of a snow-plough.

    The Western United States A Geographical Reader

  • There were two locomotives, with a huge snow-plough on the forward one, a baggage and express-car, and four cars filled with passengers.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Various

  • So is a snow-plough, in midwinter, though I prefer a more flexible implement when it comes to cultivating my early peas.

    By the Christmas Fire Samuel McChord Crothers

  • The men improvised a snow-plough, the strong horses floundering in front of it made roads and paths through the two feet of feathers that hid the world.

    The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

  • Mr. Coffin of a steam snow-plough, had he ever seen or heard, of such a thing, which he most assuredly never had.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various

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