His eyes were black and cold as an ice-bound lake. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons of Spring Dawning]
His sunken eyes flared, as the moon on an ice-bound lake. From Wordnik.com. [War of the Twins]
All they could see were the ice-bound forks of the stream. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
Winter was on and Archangel in a few days would be ice-bound. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
Was there ever such a thing as summer on this ice-bound shore?. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
As soon as the river became ice-bound, we were again in motion. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I.] Reference
Excitement broke through ordinarily ice-bound calm of the House. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914] Reference
During those weary ice-bound months it was a problem to keep warm. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
Dat de hugeous salt sea broke its breakers on dem ice-bound shores?. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
When my ice-bound heart he's thawing with his honeyed kisses tender. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
We laid her to rest as we had Lugard, since the ground was ice-bound. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Piper]
The McKenzie opens about the end of May, and is ice-bound in November. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2)] Reference
The ice-bound peak of the Alps known as the Matterhorn, situated between. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, February 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
It was a treeless and fog-shrouded place, ice-bound for fully half the year. From Wordnik.com. [Father Swarat] Reference
Some ice-bound streams and ponds were thickly mantled in the white covering. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
Nearly all of the Arctic and sub-Arctic shores are ice-bound throughout the winter. From Wordnik.com. [Arctic Ocean] Reference
They flew past snowy mountains and ice-bound rivers, and had no time to see anything. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1. No. 21, April 1, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference
The winter dawn showed its gleaming stretches, ice-bound among the sprinkled meadows. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
Hence the almost tropical vegetation that so amazed us at times in this ice-bound land. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
If this nightmare be fulfilled, perhaps the Last Man, in some fetid hut on the ice-bound. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to Dead Authors] Reference
Well, for a deer that's truly frozen, check out this ice-bound deer on a lake in Oklahoma. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2007] Reference
Her ice-bound thoughts melted and ran like liquid through her body; she could feel their cold. From Wordnik.com. [The Elf Queen of Shannara]
So, often does the sun-shiny smile melt the ice-bound prison of discontent or misunderstanding. From Wordnik.com. [The Right Knock A Story] Reference
His ice-bound outer clothing consisted of black Angora goatskin chaps and a short sheepskin coat. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
He pulled aside a bit of the tarpaulin and looked impatiently at the dark ice-bound thing inside. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
When spring comes smiling o'er the earth, she breathes on the ice-bound waters, and they flow anew. From Wordnik.com. [Stories and Sketches] Reference
Pilings beneath docks lurched and warehouse foundations sagged as ice-bound soil turned into a soggy sponge. From Wordnik.com. [Three Planetary Futures] Reference
Willoughby, three hundred years ago; the first of our countrymen who wrought an ice-bound highway to Cathay. From Wordnik.com. [The North-West Passage] Reference
They had once floated in water there in the boat-house, but now their keels were no longer afloat, they were ice-bound. From Wordnik.com. [The Rat-A-Tat Mystery]
The ice-bound river groaned and creaked in its struggle to loosen winter's hold as the melt poured into its hidden current. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
They include sweeping landscapes, expressive portraits and images of an ice-bound Terra Nova, the expedition's sailing ship. From Wordnik.com. [Polar Relics of Britain's Fatal Journey] Reference
Silent and tearful, he stood upon an ice-bound rock, straining his eyes across the boundless vista of the mysterious territory. From Wordnik.com. [Off on a Comet] Reference
Mrs Clinton, who will traverse much of the ice-bound agrarian state in a helicopter – dubbed a “Hill-o-copter” by her staff. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary And The Drug Flap: Does Her Campaign Want Issue To Go Away?] Reference
I was constantly dreading the terrors of that long ice-bound journey, but the Preceptress appeared to be little concerned about it. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
Then the Arctic winters set in with their utmost severity, continuing until at last Nature came to the relief of this ice-bound region. From Wordnik.com. [Short Sketches from Oldest America] Reference
It is strange that such rare plants should grow there, when one remembers that for six or eight months of the year the land is ice-bound. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
I thought of poison and then pushed that thought resolutely from me, concentrating only on reaching the ice-bound storehouse and another of the rods. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Piper]
But as fish live beneath the surface of an ice-bound lake, as life is maintained in the depths of dull darkness, Usha heard beneath the awful pronouncement a wistful sadness. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons Of Summer Flame]
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