There had been a slight thaw in the night, and the statue stood in need of some trifling repairs.

The dogs sat round in a half-circle watching them and the frozen fish thawing before the fire.

No thawing to-day.

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

The thaw of the morning was again locked by ice, and it was quite a nippy night for the season.

We refer to the conditions attendant on a thaw after snow.

" She thawed like an April icicle.

" The old gentleman's tone showed that he was thawing out of his irritable mood, and Peter sensed that he meant to be amusing in an austere, unsmiling fashion.

Two evenings previous, the snow fell from the roofs of buildings at nine o'clock, and it continued thawing through the night.

What is it to be this timephilosophy?" "No, I want another book of exploration," answered Keith, thawing under the smile.

A little more was made of the alarms of the fire, and the preparations for clearing the house, and there was a further thaw about the bazaar.

From the time when the frost begins, it never ceases till May, and even then it freezes every night and morning, but thaws with the heat of the sun during the day.

He received the housemaster frostily, but thawed as the latter related the events which had led up to the ringing of the bell.

It was thawing by ten o'clock.

It had thawed during the night, and when I cast my eyes over the country from the threshold, it looked to me like an immense dirty grey rag, soiled with mud and rent to tatters.

They are little incommoded with rain in this country; as the climate is so extremely cold, that the first snow that falls does not thaw for nine months.

The most lasting of the winter bridges, thawing from below as well as from above, because of warm currents of air passing through the tunnels, are strikingly arched and sculptured; and by the occasional freezing of the oozing, dripping water of the ceiling they become brightly and picturesquely icy.