" After unharnessing the dogs, the Boy stood an instant looking enviously at them as he thawed out his stiff hands under his parki.

Yes, sir, thawed my way inch by inch to the old channel.

His tone of cold official superiority immediately thawed.

Even Will thawed out under its influence and ceased to grumble.

In November it stormed, thawed, stormed again and began to freeze in earnest.

In his second period, however, Cowper uses blank verse freely; and his delight in nature and in homely characters, like the teamster and the mail carrier of The Task, shows that his classicism is being rapidly thawed out by romantic feeling.

You see I was snowbound away up in the mountains; fortunately I had plenty of dried meat, and I was compelled to wait until I was thawed out.

Little cared they for the momentary pain that ensued, when the frozen parts were being thawed out.

A fire of dry heather was made in the wide fire-place, and the ruddy flames, with a change of clothing and a draught of the amber vintage of Estepona, soon thawed out the chill of the journey.

Snow was falling, but the flakes, after hesitating for a moment, thawed into sludge on the surface of the asphalte yard.

True, Elinor had not thawed visibly, but she had been tolerant; Penelope had amused herself at no one's expense save her owna boon for which Ormsby did not fail to be duly thankful; and Mrs. Brentwood had contributed her mite by keeping hands off.

He invented an elaborate ancestry which he traced backward through the pages of Scottish Chiefs, the only book of the sort he had ever read, and by the time he was ready to leave the girl had thawed out considerably.

It is a rambling tale to-night and a half thawed brain.

Though you be treacherous as audit When at the fire you've lately thawed it, For Decius Mus

Even the musquash crept up the bank from the brook at evening, and greedily devoured it, until he had worn a path in the grass there; and when it was frozen and thawed, the crow and the jay were glad to taste it occasionally.

They pawed the ice from their eyes, and thawed it out from between their toes with their warm tongues.

If I were a tyrant, I am indeed aware your words ere now Had thawed the heart beneath the iron breast.

Instantly, the whole band thawed and marched away.

A señoritaa young and lovely señorita who had all her life been given her wayfled to her room in a great rage, because for once her smiles had not thawed the ice which her anger had frozen.

" "Thank you very much, sir," said Master Cockerell, entirely thawed.

While attempting to cross over Helvellyn to Grasmere he slipped from a steep part of the rock where the ice was not thawed, and perished.

Range through the pastures, crop the tender root, Or climbing heights abrupt, search careful out, The welcome herb,now prematurely sprung Through half-thawed earth.

This, when thawed, was weak cider.

The sight of these things, while they confirmed my despair, thawed the ice at my heart.

He says an Indian is as great a gossip as any old woman, once you get him thawed to the talking point.