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The young man watched Harrison for a moment before the faintest of smiles broke his ice-hard expression.

Crescendo Becca Fitzpatrick 2010

The young man watched Harrison for a moment before the faintest of smiles broke his ice-hard expression.

Crescendo Becca Fitzpatrick 2010

The abomination threw them aside, ice-hard corpses.

LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

The abomination threw them aside, ice-hard corpses.

LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

The abomination threw them aside, ice-hard corpses.

LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009

The roller is based on the principle that it is dangerous to leave solid, ice-hard slabs of snow untouched, because they are prone to slip and skid.

Heavy Snows Trigger Deadly Avalanches 2008

This time, he also plowed a ton of new ice-hard snow boulders into the area I had excavated in front of my mailbox and newspaper tube.

Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008

And so, I shoveled out again, casting half of the ice-hard boulders back out into the road to melt in the sun and be smushed by the traffic.

Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008

It was Sunday, and Lieutenant Irving had served two straight watches up on deck in the cold and dark, one of them covering for his friend George Hodgson, who was ill with the symptoms of dysentery, missing his own warm supper in the officers 'mess as a consequence and having only a small ice-hard slab of salt pork and a weevil-filled biscuit instead.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

He heaved himself up over the second spar, more than twenty-five feet above the deck, and clung to the icy oak with legs and arms both, the way a terrified rider would cling to the body of a horse, wildly sliding his feet along the ice-hard shroud to find more purchase on the slippery shroud lines.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007