thick-ribbed

Aunt Polya, in a stained apron stretched across her round stomach, holds a pitcher of milk and a thick-ribbed glass.

A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

Aunt Polya, in a stained apron stretched across her round stomach, holds a pitcher of milk and a thick-ribbed glass.

A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

By many persons it is supposed that the country is for ever “locked in regions of thick-ribbed ice,” and that skating and sleighing are favourite summer diversions of the inhabitants.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

The Hall was half a mile away, behind a shoulder of thick-ribbed hill; and it took no sight of this torrent, until it became a quiet river by the downward road.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

The fore and aft derricks were huge glistening Christmas trees, festooned with thick-ribbed woolly halliards and stays, and the anchor chains on the fo'c's'le had been transformed into great fluffy ropes of the softest cotton wool.

San Andreas MacLean, Alistair 1984

The thick fingers of his stumpy hands twitched as he slept, and I could see the thick-ribbed yellow nails, like flakes cut from a tallow candle.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

No idle promenade through fragrant orange groves and green flowery spaces, waited on by coral muses, and the rosy hours; it is a stern pilgrimage through the rough, burning, sandy solitudes, through regions of thick-ribbed ice.

Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration Margaret Bird Steinmetz

There would be flies to be watched, slender atoms in yellow gauze that flew, and filmy specks that flittered, and sturdy, thick-ribbed brutes that pounced like cats and bit like dogs and flew like lightning.

Irish Fairy Tales James Stephens 1916

And when this chap butted in with his thick-ribbed impudence, I guessed right then that we hadn't got a beginner to deal with.

The Swindler and Other Stories 1910

It was a contrast to much that we had lately seen, and a spectacle not only of beauty, but of life; for it required but little fancy to imagine these islands to be animate masses which had broken loose from the “thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice, ” and were working their way, by wind and current, some alone, and some in fleets, to milder climes.

Chapter XXXII. Ice Again-A Beautiful Afternoon-Cape Horn-“Land Ho!”-Heading for Home 1909