snow

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 mare began to tire and Clayton felt the spray of snow from the hoofs of Gavin's stallion.

Can't seem to locate landmarks in this snow ''.

Slowly the procession of warriors and statesmen passes through the snow beside the black water and into the brilliantly lighted cathedral, the shrine of so many precious memories.

When erosion threatened the foundation of their home in Harbert, Paula Sandburg planted grapevines and arranged the snow fences which helped hold the sands away.

The snow came a little faster now, he noted.

The snow again.

I hear the whole bunch is croakin out in the snow.

The snow was tumbling down furiously now.

He watched the snow once again.

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.

Then he slipped and went down on his hands and knees in the melting snow.

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.

He was rubbing snow on the kid's legs and feet.

Water from the snow and water from the towels had run off the kid to the table where the dough was, and the dough was turning pasty, sticking to the kid's back and behind.

Hans rubbed the kid with more snow rubbed rubbed.

`` I'll get more snow '', I said.

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.

its mass of bright bloom set in a border of snow made my spirits rise every time I looked at it.

Try that late winter pickup when you are so tired of cold and snow that you feel you just can't take another day of it.

For example, the officials of Poughkeepsie town ( township ) where the project is located think highly of it because it simplifies their snow clearing problem.

Thus in a context in which there has been discussion of snow but mention of local conditions is new, dominant stress will probably be on here in it rarely snows here, but in a context in which there has been discussion of local weather but no mention of snow, dominant stress will probably be on snows.

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