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  • By all rights, Daylight should have camped below the last pitch of the pass at the dim end of day; but he kept on and over and down to Sheep Camp, while behind him raged a snow-storm that would have delayed him twenty-four hours.

    Chapter V 2010

  • Three months later they came back over the divide in the midst of a snow-storm and dropped down the trail to 24 ELDORADO.

    TOO MUCH GOLD 2010

  • Three months later they came back over the divide in the midst of a snow-storm and dropped down the trail to 24 ELDORADO.

    Too Much Gold 2010

  • "But on the great chalk-downs, a heavy snow-storm seems to drive from the open country every living creature that dares to move at all," writes CJ Cornish in Wild England of Today 1895.

    Weatherwatch: On snow storms and scampering hares 2011

  • The view across the fields after a violent snow-storm.

    Weatherwatch: On snow storms and scampering hares 2011

  • With cold air to the west of the system, the Richmond Times Dispatch reported on November 5 that four days earlier on Thursday, November 1, A snow-storm visited Fayetteville, Arkansas covering the ground with snow.

    Weather leading up to the Civil War 2011

  • But the weapon remained poised in mid-air, for Martin found himself back in the ironing room in the midst of a snow-storm.

    Chapter 25 2010

  • Walking across the fields after a violent snow-storm in January, the writer stepped on a hare, though the field showed one level stretch of driven snow; and later in the day, from the brow of a steep, narrow valley, the sun holes made by the hares were easily marked on the opposite ridge.

    Weatherwatch: On snow storms and scampering hares 2011

  • A glance was enough to convince me of the imminent approach of a snow-storm; the fiery red sky and the heavy ring round the sun spoke a language that was only too clear.

    The South Pole~ The Eastern Sledge Journey 2009

  • Before they even get there, though, they have to make it upstate through a treacherous snow-storm.

    Evil Things (2009) 2009

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