Quotes About Icicles

If the breath of her voice had dribbled off the edge of a roof it would have made icicles.

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

It was dusk - winter dusk. Snow lay white and shining over the pleated hills, and icicles hung from the forest trees. Snow lay piled on the dark road across Willoughby Wold, but from dawn men had been clearing it with brooms and shovels. There were hundreds of them at work, wrapped in sacking because of the bitter cold, and keeping together in groups for fear of the wolves, grown savage and reckless from hunger.

transparent as the shadows of icicles, incorporated in the night-plasma.

Are those the magic fairy wands glistening on the tree or only winter icicles that I see?

The white tree on the bluff over the ocean was hung with icicles like curtains of glass, creaking faintly in the wind. Morgan's cottage, once they passed through the icy snowless beech wood, was white as bone and black as aged oak among the weathered stems of the garden.

A storm came chasing the sky away. And virgin sands Drank all the water of the evening woods, God's wind blew icicles into the ponds; As I wept I saw gold,- and could not drink. - Delirium II - Alchemy of the Word

Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.

neatly at its foot, a gauze. I hear her gargling in the bathroom. My hands and feet are blue from the cold and I cannot see through the window for the frost and icicles. When Ana Iris starts

and the stars were icicles of mockery

Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, Their beards of icicles and snow...

He was not a man of icy nature, but he loved to gather icicles about him.

Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed livery of the burnished sun, To whom I am a neighbor and near bred. Bring me the fairest creature northward born, Where Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles, And let us make incision for your love To prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine.

were all supposed to report at two o'clock.' 'We were, but the train kept getting stuck in the snow. The soldiers had to dig it out. We didn't think we were going to get here at all.' Elsie shuddered. 'Did you notice those huge icicles under the platform at the harbour station? They must be about fifteen

In the winter everyones hate was bare if you looked. She saw hate in the icicles that hung from her window; she saw it in the dirty slush on the streets; she heard it in the hail that scratched her window and bit her face; she could see it in the lowered heads hurrying to warm homes …