Under every snow-bank a summer murmur, very faint at first, but hourly louderthe sound of falling water softly singing over all the land.

Her husband's small estate had melted like a snow-bank in the liquidation of his debts.

Now he cast it outward so that it fell, striking against the cliff-side, and then rolling and dropping to disappear at last in the snow-bank below.

Gloria drew back and back where she crouched, her body pressed into the snow-bank, in a panicky desire to hide.

She looked behind her at every step, picturing the snarling cat springing out from every shadow, starting upward from every drift and snow-bank.

His hand felt as if it had been pierced by a thousand needles, and he flew to a snow-bank to rub it with snow.

He is fit to meet the bar-room wits and bullies; he is a wit and a bully himself, and something more; he is a graduate of the plough, and the stub-hoe, and the bush-whacker; knows all the secrets of swamp and snow-bank, and has nothing to learn of labor or poverty or the rough of farming.

The body of Daggett had disappeared, with the snow-bank in which it had been buried; and all the carcases of the seals had been washed away.

The snow-bank, shattered by the blast, had gone tumbling down to the surface of the lake.

De'il a bit can a man look after a thing in a fog, more nor into a snow-bank.

This point in the road attained, the path began immediately to descend, and the drippings of a snow-bank before the convent door, which had resisted the greatest heat of the past summer, ran partly into the valley of the Rhone, and partly into Piedmont; the waters, after a long and devious course through the plains of France and Italy, meeting again in the common basin of the Mediterranean.

The dog kennels were moved into it, and stood against the side of a snow-bank eight feet high, up which, when they were unchained, the gaunt, wolfish animals leapt in a loosely formed pack, the great mother, Brenda, at their head, and padded off into the silent woods in their hungry search for food.

"You'll look like a fool standing on his head in a snow-bank if you talk impudent to me," said Hefty, epigrammatically, from behind the barrier of his iron mask.

But before they could rise Hefty set his teeth, and with a gurgle of joy butted his iron helmet into McCluire's back and sent him flying forward into a snow-bank.

Fortunately, one of his skies brokeinstead of most of his bones; and a very kind-hearted snow-bank appeared like a feather-bed, and somewhat checked the force of his fall.

The whole village seems to me like so many prescient beavers, in a vast snow-bank, who cut away the snow and make paths, every morning, from one lodge to another.

No threshold could be seen, only a snow-bank reaching up to the white plain beyond, where every sound was muffled, and every object was blurred by falling flakes.

A railway-train was fast in a snow-bank.

I've got a snow-bank on my back!"

Kerbstone was found to be a defaulter to the amount of hundreds of thousands of dollars; the property was gone,undermined like a snow-bank in spring.

On his rising and thrusting his bare arm through a hole in the roof, it seemed precisely as if he had thrust it into a snow-bank, so densely was the air filled with falling and driving particles.

A little later, going into a draw, we crossed a snow-bank, solid as ice.

"Besides, the wind, what there is, is north-east; and don't you see that snow-bank off south?" Josey looked in the direction in which they were going, which was towards the south-west, and he saw a long, white bank of cloud, extending over that quarter of the heavens.

"Is that a snow-bank?" asked Josey.

By the time Dodd and I finished we were ready to rush out-doors, sit down on a snow-bank, and eat frozen fish and cranberry hailstones by the quart.