ice-hole

Please, Ed, pull your head out of that ice-hole you've been fishing out of for too long and pay closer attention to something besides your own damn bank account, which, your listeners should note, continues to be shot-through with nickels, dimes and quarters from ClearChannel and Rupert Murdoch.

Ed Schultz Is Pinocchio: Charisma Without Intellect Equals Cartoon Character 2008

We did see a Bald Eagle at sunset, even though that % $#@! boat was parked by the ice-hole.

View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006

He found the pail, ran to the ice-hole and watered the cows; he had sympathy for cows, because he dreamt of possessing one himself one day, or at least a goat.

Selected Polish Tales Else C. M. Benecke

Before going to bed La Salle cut into the ice-hole, which had been filled some days before with salt water.

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

"Those boys will get into the ice-hole if they don't look out," Nan had just said to her chum, when suddenly a wild yell arose from the hockey players.

Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret Annie Roe Carr

Such mummers as these would lay aside their disguises with a light conscience, but the peasant was apt to feel a depressing qualm when the sports were over; and it is said that, even at the present day, there are rustics who do not venture to go to church, after having taken part in a mumming, until they have washed off their guilt by immersing themselves in the benumbing waters of an ice-hole.

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

Even a whole day's labour with a pick and shovel at the bottom of an ice-hole never seemed laborious.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

She obeyed, and went away and cut an ice-hole; and while she was cutting, an elegant carriage came by, in which the King sat.

Grimm's Fairy Stories Gebr��der Grimm 1909

I can imagine a group of prehistoric men standing round the ice-hole where he had disappeared and laughing till their sides split.

Further Foolishness Stephen Leacock 1906

The Sheep was struggling helplessly in an ice-hole of his own making.

The Toys of Peace, and other papers 1870-1916 Saki 1893