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Snow in sentence

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"I think we shall have snow."
The daylight was growing, and flakes of snow began to fly in the earthy sky.
On the summit of the pit-bank Jules stood motionless, with eyes vacantly gazing at the falling snow.
The Deux-Cent-Quarante settlement lay beneath the snow as though it had disappeared.
Alzire, from the obstinacy with which her poor hands had dug in the snow, was dying.
The petroleum also was finished; but the reflection of the snow from outside was so bright that it vaguely lit up the room, in spite of the deepening night.
At the Pierrons' door Maheu and the Levaques met Lydie, who was stamping in the snow.
The road was becoming deserted, not a shadow spotted the naked whiteness of the snow, and the settlement, falling back into its death-like immobility, went on starving beneath the intense cold.
A gentleman had certainly given them two sous, but the girl kept kicking her little brother, and the two sous fell into the snow, and as Jeanlin had joined in the search they had not been able to find them.
Unwound from her coverlet, she shivered beneath this flickering light, as lean as a bird dying in the snow, so small that one only saw her hump.
The thaw was beginning, a slow cold thaw which stained the snow without melting it.
And he passed again along the canal through the puddles of melted snow.
Beneath the limpid light the red trousers and grey overcoat contrasted harshly with the snow.
The snow was melting; on the soil there was neither a red patch nor the footmarks of a struggle.
A quarter of an hour later, as the band of strikers, which had gradually enlarged, was becoming threatening, a large door opened on the ground floor and some men appeared drawing out the dead beast, a miserable mass of flesh still fastened in the rope net; they left it in the midst of the puddles of melting snow.
The wounded were howling, the dead were growing cold. in twisted postures, muddy with the liquid mud of the thaw, here and there forming puddles among the inky patches of coal which reappeared beneath the tattered snow.
The snow was piling up in such packed layers, it had to be chipped loose with blows from picks.
And soon this mist began to condense into snow.
You would have thought it was some ruin enshrouded in a crust of whitened seashells, as if under a mantle of snow.
Once, during a thaw the bark of the trees in the yard was oozing, the snow on the roofs of the outbuildings was melting; she stood on the threshold, and went to fetch her sunshade and opened it.
Then he remembered his wedding, the old times, the first pregnancy of his wife; he, too, had been very happy the day when he had taken her from her father to his home, and had carried her off on a pillion, trotting through the snow, for it was near Christmas-time, and the country was all white.
Charles in snow and rain trotted across country.
As soon as he heard the bell he ran to meet Madame Bovary, took her shawl, and put away under the shop-counter the thick list shoes that she wore over her boots when there was snow.
Chapter FiveIt was a Sunday in February, an afternoon when the snow was falling.
Henceforth the memory of Leon was the centre of her boredom; it burnt there more brightly than the fire travellers have left on the snow of a Russian steppe.
Several citizens had scoured their houses the evening before; tri-coloured flags hung from half-open windows; all the public-houses were full; and in the lovely weather the starched caps, the golden crosses, and the coloured neckerchiefs seemed whiter than snow, shone in the sun, and relieved with the motley colours the sombre monotony of the frock-coats and blue smocks.
They threw their arms round one another, and all their rancour melted like snow beneath the warmth of that kiss.
The snow on the market-roof threw a white, still light into the room; then the rain began to fall; and Emma waited daily with a mind full of eagerness for the inevitable return of some trifling events which nevertheless had no relation to her.
One morning, when she had gone, as usual, rather lightly clothed, it suddenly began to snow, and as Charles was watching the weather from the window, he caught sight of Monsieur Bournisien in the chaise of Monsieur Tuvache, who was driving him to Rouen.
The sky was sombre, and a little snow was falling.
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