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  • Aunt Polya, in a stained apron stretched across her round stomach, holds a pitcher of milk and a thick-ribbed glass.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • Aunt Polya, in a stained apron stretched across her round stomach, holds a pitcher of milk and a thick-ribbed glass.

    A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

  • By many persons it is supposed that the country is for ever “locked in regions of thick-ribbed ice,” and that skating and sleighing are favourite summer diversions of the inhabitants.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • The Hall was half a mile away, behind a shoulder of thick-ribbed hill; and it took no sight of this torrent, until it became a quiet river by the downward road.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • The fore and aft derricks were huge glistening Christmas trees, festooned with thick-ribbed woolly halliards and stays, and the anchor chains on the fo'c's'le had been transformed into great fluffy ropes of the softest cotton wool.

    San Andreas MacLean, Alistair 1984

  • The thick fingers of his stumpy hands twitched as he slept, and I could see the thick-ribbed yellow nails, like flakes cut from a tallow candle.

    My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

  • No idle promenade through fragrant orange groves and green flowery spaces, waited on by coral muses, and the rosy hours; it is a stern pilgrimage through the rough, burning, sandy solitudes, through regions of thick-ribbed ice.

    Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration Margaret Bird Steinmetz

  • There would be flies to be watched, slender atoms in yellow gauze that flew, and filmy specks that flittered, and sturdy, thick-ribbed brutes that pounced like cats and bit like dogs and flew like lightning.

    Irish Fairy Tales James Stephens 1916

  • And when this chap butted in with his thick-ribbed impudence, I guessed right then that we hadn't got a beginner to deal with.

    The Swindler and Other Stories 1910

  • It was a contrast to much that we had lately seen, and a spectacle not only of beauty, but of life; for it required but little fancy to imagine these islands to be animate masses which had broken loose from the “thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice, ” and were working their way, by wind and current, some alone, and some in fleets, to milder climes.

    Chapter XXXII. Ice Again-A Beautiful Afternoon-Cape Horn-“Land Ho!”-Heading for Home 1909

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