The last three passages of the sun had shown me a snow-covered earth, which, at night, had seemed, for a few seconds, incredibly weird under the fast-shifting light of the soaring and falling moon.

Some of the sparrows were busy at the feet of the larger trees gleaning seeds and benumbed insects, joined now and then by a robin weary of his unsuccessful attempts upon the snow-covered berries.

She could see where, some distance yet beyond, the gully struck black across the snow-covered fields.

She saw that the snow-covered ridges stretching endlessly were like a concrete symbol of that infinity which extended above and about her; that they were clothed in beauty.

The yellow sun hung equally between the snow-covered land and the cloudless blue sky.

The return ride in the afternoon, when the sun was commencing to decline a little, was very pleasant, and the snow-covered Port de Venasque, so beautiful in its whiteness, and yet for the same reason quite inaccessible, looked very lovely when tinged with the crimson hue that the setting sun shot o'er it, as we arrived in Luchon again.

In substance, Mr. Hofer said: "One day about the first of January I was in my cabin looking through the window, and up through the Cinnabar Basin, over the snow-covered mountains.

From 9:00 to 10:00 o'clock we were detained at Culoz, and by noon we saw the snow-covered Alps again.

The guard opened the door and they stepped out on to the snow-covered platform.

The upper portion is sometimes spoken of as the Vilcanota, a term which applies to a lake as well as to the snow-covered peaks of the cordillera in this vicinity.

Near the latter, especially, the prospect is very beautiful, extending, as it does, on a clear day, as far as some of the majestic snow-covered spurs of the Andes.

After great exertion I raised myself out of a snow-covered stream, and went round on a hillside and continued my journey.

Strangely the last dogs were the most difficult, as they were close under the lip of the gap, bound in by the snow-covered rope.

On top, another pressure appeared on the left, but less lofty and more snow-covered than that which had troubled us in the morning.

Jane joining me, we had a most charming ramble down a narrow track to the bed of the stream which rushes down from the snow-covered ridge guarding the Lolab.

They were not far off the main pack, and as far as the eye could see was one vast field of snow-covered ice.

It is a great change: from desert, alkaline plains, miles of snow sheds, snow-covered mountains, a semi-civilization, and a freezing atmosphere, we find ourselves in a warm, genial climate, cultivated farms, vineyards, gardens, and orchards of nectarines, pears, apples, and the rest.

She slipped through the door, and ran along the snow-covered garden.

On my right and on my left were high, untimbered, snow-covered peaks.

" "Dear Father Pomphrey" Then for a moment the Duchess looked with a far-away expression out upon the snow-covered landscape, then, on a sudden, she said, almost pettishly,"But, Janet, what keeps the chest?" "Perhaps 'tis Providence.

One winter's day, it happened that a Dalecarlian peasant mistook the house, and came into Oedmann's chamber in his snow-covered skin cloak, and with his beard full of ice.

I little thought when I shook hands with Harder and Robinson then, that I should next meet them at midnight, in a little snow-covered cellar, on the great lonely steppes of the lower Anadyr.

The thin smoke from the conical fur tents rises perpendicularly to a great height in the clear, still air; the ghostly mountain peaks in the distance look like white silhouettes on a background of dark steel-blue; and the desolate snow-covered landscape is faintly tinged with a yellow glare by the low-hanging wintry sun.

The peaks of the high Tátra are about 9,000 feet high, and, of course, are bare of any vegetation, being snow-covered even in summer-time.

I wish I could spread one of these enamelled tracts on the side of one of your snow-covered hills nowfor I daresay they are snow-covered yet.