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  • It didn't feel like spring when I recently drove up into the wolds near Pocklington, with snow-sprinkled verges still not thawed after an afternoon of winter sun – a low, heatless sun that gave rise to long shadows.

    Country diary: East Yorkshire 2011

  • The sun, going down behind the Pentlands, cast golden lights and blue shadows on their snow-clad summits, slanted obliquely into the rich plain before them, bathing with rosy splendour the leafless, snow-sprinkled trees, and fading gradually into shadow in the distance.

    Lay Morals 2005

  • At last a match did burn up, and its flame lit up for a moment the fur of his coat, his hand with the gold ring on the bent forefinger, and the snow-sprinkled oat-straw that stuck out from under the drugget.

    Master and Man 2003

  • There is no doubt that, as time went on, Lemon became more and more popular with his Staff, and each fresh appearance in _Punch_ of his jolly face under the low-crowned hat of John Bull, or the snow-sprinkled peak of Father Christmas, identified him more closely with the paper and endeared him to his workers.

    The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

  • The snow-sprinkled forest looked white and weird through the veils of mist.

    Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various

  • The window was only on the first floor, and she saw just beneath a narrow, snowy strip of ground, on either side and below it snow-sprinkled pinewoods falling, falling steeply, as it were, into space.

    The Invader A Novel

  • The damoiseau of Beaumanoir sat on a ridge commanding for fifty miles the snow-sprinkled uplands.

    The Path of the King John Buchan 1907

  • It was dusk when with lowered heads we charged through the scattered birches of a ravine bluff, and far down in the hollow beneath I caught the dull gleam of snow-sprinkled ice.

    Lorimer of the Northwest Harold Bindloss 1905

  • The night -- it seemed a very long one -- was nearly over when he recognized the roar of a rapid that rang in louder and louder pulsations across the snow-sprinkled bush.

    Vane of the Timberlands Harold Bindloss 1905

  • "You can well imagine why I come," said Paul, slowly stepping to the table in his snow-sprinkled garments.

    Dame Care Hermann Sudermann 1892

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