snow-drifted

The observatory is set almost entirely beneath the snow-drifted surface of the polar plateau, with 5,000 sensors arrayed inside a cubic kilometer of ice.

Mapping the Universe from the World's End 2010

The observatory is set almost entirely beneath the snow-drifted surface of the polar plateau, with 5,000 sensors arrayed in a quarter of a cubic mile of ice.

Using Earth to Map the Cosmos 2010

Their high hour was a tramp on a ringing December afternoon, through snow-drifted meadows down to the icy Chaloosa River.

Babbit 2004

An unattainable opposite shore, the only bridge being by the interstate, and then 10-12 miles of rough roads in snow-drifted hills.

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2003

The sharp wind that whistled down from the snow-drifted peaks cut through anything lighter.

Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999

Without understanding how, I was on the other side of the black curtain, seeing through a veil the snow-drifted depression where the three marines looked down on a set of footprints that came from nowhere and went nowhere.

Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992

We were blown up the ten steps to the porch, which was empty and snow-drifted.

Working Murder Boylan, Eleanor 1989

The outsider leaned back in the chair and transferred his sharp glance to the snow-drifted lake and the gray-clouded skies and the fine sheeting snow that appeared more like fog.

The Silent Warrior Modesitt, L. E. 1987

They walk down past the snow-drifted kennel runs, Pointsman in Glastonburys and fawn-colored British warm, Mexico wearing a scarf Jessica's lately knitted him whipping landward a scarlet dragon's tongue-this day the coldest so far of the winter, 3 9 degrees of frost.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

She had learned now that, despite her adventure with the lynx in the snow-drifted hollow, there was scarcely any animal to fear about Pine

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