1 Her wonder and his laughter ran together like spring rills in a thaw.
2 "Sit right down and thaw out," he greeted Ethan.
3 The sky, swollen with the clouds that announce a thaw, hung as low as before a summer storm.
4 A thaw which stripped the snow from the sidewalks; a ringing iron night when the lakes could be heard booming; a clear roistering morning.
5 The recent thaw had disclosed heaps of ashes, dog-bones, torn bedding, clotted paint-cans, all half covered by the icy pools which filled the hollows of the yards.
6 There had been a warm thaw all day, with mushy yards and little streams of dark water gurgling cheerfully into the streets out of old snow-banks.
7 There had been a heavy snow, and now a thaw had set in; fine sleety rain was falling, driven by a wind that pierced Jurgis to the bone.
8 The moon was set, and it was very dark; Bessie carried a lantern, whose light glanced on wet steps and gravel road sodden by a recent thaw.
9 At Wuthering Heights it always sounded on quiet days following a great thaw or a season of steady rain.
10 A thaw had set in, it was muddy and cold, the ice on the river broke, and the roads became impassable.
11 It was frosty and the air was sharp, but toward evening the sky became overcast and it began to thaw.
12 He had, in a manner, to thaw out, from the tomb.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI... 13 The snow was thawing in the sunshine, the horses galloped quickly, and on both sides of the road were forests of different kinds, fields, and villages.
14 It was thawing and misty; at forty paces' distance nothing could be seen.
15 Over the ploughland riding was utterly impossible; the horse could only keep a foothold where there was ice, and in the thawing furrows he sank deep in at each step.