Usage examples (6)

• Strong, slender fingers tested the niveous marble carvings of the wall, and then she was climbing like a monkey.
• Roofless walls of niveous stone and truncated alabaster columns, never completed and now wreathed by thick vines, covered the leveled top of the mountain.
• "Yes, my dear daughter," said her venerable son-in-law, running his fingers through his niveous thatch, "he was the first of the time - wasting Van Winkles."
• He was ten paces from the niveous stone rail.