I had stopped to watch a family of brilliant icicles drip-dripping from the eaves of a frame house. From LearnThat.org. [Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian-born U.S. novelist, poet. The Vane Sisters, NabokovÆs Quartet (1966).]
Everyone knows what an icicle is and what it looks like, so this research is very accessible. From Wordnik.com. [The Physics of Icicles is Revealed | Impact Lab] Reference
Sheikha dazzles east London in fur boots with 'icicle' heels on tour of Olympic stadium. From Wordnik.com. [Sheikha Mozah outdoes Lady Gaga with Arctic-inspired footwear] Reference
Where you see white blare, like a loud trumpet, in real life is all lacy "icicle" lights. From Wordnik.com. [joyful, joyful] Reference
The way he said it went through me like an icicle. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman In The Great Game]
Well, I went in and found her as cool as an icicle. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
And I'll add, to the icicle that incloses her heart. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
As for Olivia, she was first a flame and then an icicle. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
A gargantuan chunk of ice hanging by an icicle in Antarctica. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2008] Reference
An icicle through the heart, a car filled with carbon monoxide. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Acts]
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: How is my little political icicle there?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2008] Reference
But, at the first outset, no icicle could be brighter and colder than. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
Half-learned lessons slip from the memory, as an icicle from the hand. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
I did not think one could be so cold, an icicle was warm in comparison!. From Wordnik.com. ['Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany] Reference
"I hope you had a pleasant stroll this afternoon," came in icicle tones. From Wordnik.com. [An American Suffragette] Reference
"Let me get thawed first," answered Philip; "I am an icicle at present.". From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1] Reference
Stalactites and stalagmites are icicle-like forms sometimes found in caves. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
"Whenever I open my mouth it feels as if some one had stuffed an icicle in.". From Wordnik.com. [The Young Treasure Hunter or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska] Reference
The icicle was all of a foot and a half long and an inch or more in thickness. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves] Reference
On came the figure as swiftly as a bird, glittering in the light like an icicle. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages] Reference
“Is that an icicle in your pocket or are you just happy to see me,” she says. From Wordnik.com. [Gorgeous World] Reference
You may have seen in the winter-time an icicle forming under the eaves of a house. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Conduct] Reference
There are 26 models involved, including mini lights, net lights and icicle lights. From Wordnik.com. [Holiday merriment beset by recalls and falls] Reference
He gave Malone a smile good for exchange at your corner grocery; worth, one icicle. From Wordnik.com. [The Impossibles] Reference
He gave Malone a smile good for exchange at your corner grocery: worth, one icicle. From Wordnik.com. [Out Like a Light] Reference
She was going to fall from the loggia and break into a thousand pieces, like an icicle. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
"That's just to remind you to watch your tongue, or you might wind up an icicle again.". From Wordnik.com. [Treachery in Outer Space] Reference
There is a scene where someone kills someone else by stabbing an icicle through his eye. From Wordnik.com. [They] Reference
I was at that time a sort of animated icicle, as far as my emotional nature was concerned. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
I started to think how amazing an icicle would look with something was frozen inside of it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2003] Reference
Cold as an icicle, too, not to melt under the influence of such dewy tears shed from -- ahem!. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life] Reference
"The icicle that holds your heart has chilled my love till now, my sweet," the mask answered. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
For a little he gazed at him in silence, and his look might have turned a sunbeam to an icicle. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
"Some problems are like the icicle murder-they're deadly, but they leave no evidence," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Unsolved Mystery] Reference
"Madame," exclaimed he, rising abruptly, as cold as an icicle, "I shall see to this immediately.". From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
Was it those guys in icicle costumes that looked like they were part of the KKK's Arctic Brigade?. From Wordnik.com. [Games Networks Play] Reference
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