The clouds parted and hard gashes of sunlight swooped down to stain the earth with streaks of white and gold light so that the shadows of the running horses flowed like dark streams over the dazzling snow.

The sharp wind slapped at him and his feet felt like ice as the snow penetrated the holes of his shoes, his only ones, now patched with folded parchment.

I decided I hated the Pedersen kid too, dying in our kitchen while I was away where I couldn't watch, dying just to entertain Hans and making me go up snapping steps and down a drafty hall, Pa lumped under the covers at the end like dung covered with snow, snoring and whistling.

Hans is rubbing him with snow.

Hans rubbed the kid with more snow rubbed rubbed.

She had surprised Hans like she had surprised me when she said she'd go, and then she surprised him again when she came back so quick like she must have, because when I came in with the snow she was there with a bottle with three white feathers on its label and Hans was holding it angrily by the throat.

Thus the unstressed it of it rarely snows here gets its significance from its use with snows: nothing can snow snow but `` it ''.

To starboard was a cape a thousand feet high, patched with ice and snow, populated by thousands of screaming sea birds.

Frostbite was treated by putting the feet and hands in ice water or by rubbing them with snow.

After a while she said with sort of an unuttered laugh, `` You have snow in your hair and ears ''.

A chill wind in the air and the narrow streets packed with snow.

In general, the plateau experiences high temperatures and almost no rainfall in summer and cold weather with heavy snow in winter.

Chalets often face south or downhill, are built of solid wood, with a steeply gabled roof to allow accumulated snow to slide off easily.

During each winter there is usually one fall of snow in the south and two in the north ; but the snow quickly disappears, and sometimes, during an entire winter, the ground is not covered with snow.

For nine months of the year the ground is covered with snow, and the frozen rivers become navigable roads.

It will begin with three winters of snow, with no summers in between.

The outer shell of the calorimeter was packed with snow, which melted to maintain a constant temperature of around an inner shell filled with ice.

All units ran much faster than the original TRS-80, at 4 MHz, ( with a software selectable throttle to the original speed for compatibility purposes ) and the display supported upper and lower case, hardware snow suppression ( video ram bus arbitration logic ), and an improved character font set.

The forged steel globes to be used in the space frame came to the site with hairline cracks and other defects ; 12, 000 were rejected.

Early barbells had hollow globes that could be filled with sand or lead shot, but by the end of the century these were replaced by the plate-loading barbell commonly used today.

European geographers connected the coast of Tierra del Fuego with the coast of New Guinea on their globes and allowing their imaginations to run riot in the vast unknown spaces of the south Atlantic, south Indian and Pacific oceans.

This curve is commonly printed on globes, usually in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the only large tropical region with very little land.

To avoid this confusion, it has been suggested that analemmas on globes should be printed with west to the left, but this is not done, at least, not frequently.

In the United Kingdom the crossing is marked with Belisha beacons, flashing amber globes on black and white posts on each side of the road, named after Leslie Hore-Belisha, the Minister of Transport, who introduced them in 1934.

Gardiner also laid out a mall down the central section of the street, lined with low granite walls and obelisks topped with oil-fuelled lamp globes.

Lindsey Vonn with 8 crystal globes, including 3 large ones for FIS World Cup overall titles and 5 smaller ones for various discipline titles.

During his visit to his native home in Nuremberg, in collaboration with the painter Georg Albrecht Glockenthon, Martin Behaim constructed his familiar terrestrial globe between 1491 and 1493, one of two globes, which he called the Erdapfel ( literally, the earth apple ).

" Censing baskets " were globes of hollow metal, pierced with intricate floral or animal designs ; within the globe, an iron cup, suspended on gimbals, contained the burning incense.

Usually lit with capiz globes, it is hung with multicolored star lanterns at Christmas.

Most modern globes are also imprinted with parallels and meridians, so that one can tell the approximate coordinates of a specific place.

In 1729, the Fishmongers ' Company presented the school with "... a valuable and useful library, not only of the best editions of the Classics and Lexicographers, but also with some books of Antiquities, Chronology, and Geography, together with a suitable pair of globes ".

Rand McNally began publishing educational maps in 1880 with its first line of maps, globes, and geography textbooks, soon followed by a world atlas.

The art of coated cards globes with terrestrial or celestial, handwritten and often finely decorated originated in Italy. Coronelli was among the initiators of this art.

In 1797, the S. Augustine monastery was suppressed, both the globes met with the confiscations of Napoleonic laws and were on the way to be brought to Paris and gathered with the Versailles globes.

The candles were enclosed in globes of enamelled glass, with four to twelve candles in each connected in series.

Some are printed with advertisements or company slogans, or as globes.

Drifting through a third illness, apparently without any provision for the handling of a major national emergency other than a talk with the vice-president, Eisenhower revealed the singularly static quality of his thinking.

Maybe an entire scene comes into consciousness, with action and motion, or a static view: `` a house under a pine tree, with a little stone path going up to the door ''.

Current research suggests that, if a person is able to walk with or without a mobility aid, physical therapy should include an exercise program addressing five components: static balance, dynamic balance, trunk-limb coordination, stairs, and contracture prevention.

Being a protective encasement with at least one gun position, it is essentially a pillbox or small fortress ( though these are static fortifications of a purely defensive nature ) that can move toward the enemy-hence its offensive utility.

As with other historic vehicles, many preserved buses either in a working or static state form part of the collections of transport museums.

Therefore hit points ( which increase with experience in D & D ) were based on the average of Size and Constitution and were functionally static for the life of the character.

with the background energy level independent of r. In a static situation ( no motion of the fluid in the rotating frame ), this energy is constant independent of position r. Requiring the energy to be constant, we obtain the parabolic form:

Shannon and Weaver also recognized that often there is static that interferes with one listening to a telephone conversation, which they deemed noise.

This ratio is higher with more conservative ( i. e., earlier, soon after BDC ) intake cam timing, and lower with more radical ( i. e., later, long after BDC ) intake cam timing, but always lower than the static or " nominal " compression ratio.

An engine with high static compression ratio and late intake valve closure will have a DCR similar to an engine with lower compression but earlier intake valve closure.

* the higher temperature of the cylinder will create higher pressures when running vs. a static test, even a test performed with the engine near operating temperature.

For an axially loaded straight column with any end support conditions, the equation of static equilibrium, in the form of a differential equation, can be solved for the deflected shape and critical load of the column.

In this viewpoint, the societies of India, China, and the Middle East were societies with glorious pasts but that they have become trapped in a static past ( see Orientalism ).

This view provided an implicit justification of British colonialism with Britain assuming the " white man's burden " of breaking these societies from their static past and bringing them into the modern world.

Cox argued in 1948 that caste cannot be compared to race or class, because, according to him, caste was static, the social inferiors in a caste system were ‘ content with their situation ’, and there was no social movement for their betterment.

The hybrid architecture allows a DW to be replaced with a master data management solution where operational, not static information could reside.

* static allocation: The DHCP server allocates an IP address based on a table with MAC address / IP address pairs, which are manually filled in ( perhaps by a network administrator ).

More participatory or traditional activities, or those involving relatively static presentations, such as celebrating holidays, playing games, reading, making arts and crafts or viewing works of art, are not generally considered entertainment, but rather as pastimes, for entertainment generally requires that the supplier of the show is visible to the viewer, with the exception of video games.

He was also the first to draw a clear distinction between magnetism and static electricity and is credited with establishing the term electricity.

It is important to note that the Great Conversation is not static, which is the impression that one might obtain from some descriptions of perennialism, a confusion with religious perennialism, or even the term perennialism itself.

The late ' 20s were full of static, stagey talkies as artists in front of and behind the camera struggled with the stringent limitations of the early sound equipment and their own uncertainty as to how to utilize the new medium.

Mussolini claimed that capitalism had degenerated in three stages, starting with dynamic or heroic capitalism ( 1830 – 1870 ), followed by static capitalism ( 1870 – 1914 ), and reaching its final form of decadent capitalism or " supercapitalism " beginning in 1914.