hoarfrost

And in the morning, one will arise as fresh as a lark and look at the window, and see the fields overlaid with hoarfrost, and fine icicles hanging from the naked branches, and the pond covered over with ice as thin as paper, and a white steam rising from the surface, and birds flying overhead with cheerful cries.

The tradition is kept up here that you are the best of skaters," she said, with her little black-gloved hand brushing a grain of hoarfrost off her muff.

Zakhar held back his horses and turned his face, which was already covered with hoarfrost to his eyebrows.

The ground from the steps to the river was covered with snow and hoarfrost, the water of the river looked black and deep.

These new monsters will be spawning in the new area that ships along with the expansion, the Hoarfrost Reach.

McDermid agreed: "They call it the hoarfrost, when every little blade of anything has ice sticking out like the fur on a ruffled cat's tail.

You've already got this extract in hand, so the easiest thing to do is put it in a freezer box, scrape away the mounds of hoarfrost as needed, and bury the box deep in the back of a lab freezer.

By midmorning the sun was out, warming the valley floor, and the hoarfrost glistened on the long grass.

Many varieties stand up to being dusted with hoarfrost in December.

The presence of precipitation (rain, drizzle, snow, dew, hoarfrost) affects the colour of landscape, as follows: the colours become brighter due to humidity: a wet object, whatever colour it is, become in 2-3 times brighter than the dry object (Ruskin, 1860).

Once, when I was eight, he took me up in the mountains and showed me a newborn bear whose young fur bristled with hoarfrost. It was wonder to me then, and a wonder to me now, that we weren't mauled by its mother.

MY BOOTS CRUNCH THROUGH THICK HOARFROST as I hike uphill on a narrow trail, my collar turned up against a biting chill.