The snow, flecked with ice splinters, came at them horizontally.
Back at Gerda's home the window bursts open, letting in ice splinters that get into Kay's eyes and heart.
"The glow must be vapor, ice splinters, dust, thrown up from the trench they are digging."
Two of the Chitchatuk had hurled themselves down that shaft, braking their fall with their boots and short bone knives throwing ice splinters above them, and I was about to squeeze in when Cuchiat grabbed my shoulder.
With the jagged ice splinters that lay below, it wasn't much of a chance, but it was their only one.
A whir of ice splinters came scuttling across the rock shelf's surface; with every further step she took, she crunched on crystals.
He took a flying leap and landed full length in the freezing waters of the horsetrough, lying back gratefully among the bobbing ice splinters.
As it skids down the steep, irregular terrain in fits and starts, The mass of ice splinters into a jumble of huge, tottering blocks called seracs, some as large as office buildings.
Finally Gerda sings the opening lullaby to her brother and the ice splinter in his heart melts.
'God bless us, every one,' " I ended, and lay silent, a small needle of grief like an ice splinter through my heart.