Or, grasping her long brooms by the handles, she will go into the woods and beat the icicles off the big trees as a housewife would brush down cobwebs; so that the released limbs straighten up like a man who has gotten out of debt, and almost say to you, joyfully, "Now, then, we are all right again!"

I need warm clothing before winter begins to blow its icicles through us.

" "Confound the icicle!"

It cut my eyes so I cried icicles a foot long.

Whilst he was in this condition of bodily collapse and mental horror a cold, cynical voice dropped icicles, so to speak, into his ear.

One cracked the shell and found icicles beneath, and miserably held fragments of egg in one's mouth until they thawed!

King Frost was abroad, nipping toes and ears, hanging icicles on the eaves of houses, and decorating the forest trees with glittering pendants.

Some faint color flushed all her face; she did not hear the icicles dropping from the lonely tree.

Off went the minaret, as you would knock off an icicle, from the mosque on the hill.

The March sun is melting the icicles, and they came clattering down upon me, as I was in the yard, with a happy, twinkling, childish laugh.

" The three adventurers were soon sleeping soundly in the bunks of the Gussie Brown, and far away, bobbing his head through a water-hole and shaking the icicles from his moustache, a great bull-walrus barked at the moon.

But to see myself in the presence of that polite audience, standing at that stove, and turning from side to side, to thaw the icicles from the skirts of my coat, was too much for me.

In the centre of a large cave stood an enormous mass of clear ice, smooth and polished as a mirror, and in the form of a gigantic beehive, with its dome-shaped top just touching the long icicles which depended from the jagged surface of the rock.

She came over to me and took my hands in a way that would have warmed even the icicles of your heart, Swinnerton.

It must be true as they tell me, that thou wert once an icicle, and the breath of some fairy's lips warmed thee into a flower.