The lights were still glistening upon the oval of hardened snow, but the only movement was the measured pacing of a single armed sentry.

The two great sails were hoisted, and under the pressure of the wind the sledge slid over the hardened snow with a velocity of forty miles an hour.

One of the restaurant awnings was heavy with hardened snow and ice.

Symbolic Breakthrough So it is truly seems a triumph today when months of Perm's hardened snow and tons of industrial soot that cover it finally crack open like an earth shell.

They take the form of tall thin blades of hardened snow, or ice, closely spaced with the blades oriented towards the general direction of the sun.

At one point, I almost slipped on a patch of hardened snow to what surely would have been my death.

The hardened snow shattered on the wooden floor and lay there to crackle underfoot.

Mr. Jones said that the climber appeared to have fallen in an avalanche and that the Chinese search team that found the body could not immediately extract it from heavy, hardened snow.

SLOT The Hagglunds - front cabin crudely patched, tracks squeaking on hardened snow - churned through the brief March night.

Kilchas lay facedown on the hardened snow, one arm twisted beneath him, head at an unnatural angle.