snowcaps

Waves lose their translucence, become a million jagged snowcaps that bob and creak, weave and thrash on a suicide mission southwards, the North Fork of Long Island, a blue and brown dash in the distance.

Monkeytown prologue/chapter first Chris Vola 2011

And it was not for the unmelting snowcaps at their peaks that the mountains were so named, but because the stone itself was white, like the bones of the earth thrust up to mark this final boundary.

Caribou House « A Fly in Amber 2009

Occasionally, you could see snowcaps and, in summer, tall, heavy pines that pierced the sky.

Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010

But misses it terribly now, after feeling the water melted from far away snowcaps, hiking into the back country, breathing, drinking, living gods creation.

Giorgio Morandi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2008

In the distance the Hindu Kush mountains rose, their pointed white snowcaps piercing the sky.

Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010

In the distance the Hindu Kush mountains rose, their pointed white snowcaps piercing the sky.

Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010

Occasionally, you could see snowcaps and, in summer, tall, heavy pines that pierced the sky.

Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010

Climate models by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the state's water resources agency, and researchers at the University of California, Davis all point to the same trend: the Sierra snowcaps that supply the state's water are disappearing.

Dying on the Vine 2009

Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and periodically inundate its temperate zones.

The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

I'm afraid I have much the opposite problem, or at least used to - I apparently had some kind of built-in nuclear reactor which allowed me to walk around in tees at 3am in the dead of winter with the wind howling down off the snowcaps.

seanan_mcguire: Tumbling into fall. seanan_mcguire 2009