Many-coloured icicles
The Muscovite Embassy includes the young woman who captures Orlando's heart. The idea of icicles being 'many-coloured' is intriguing, perhaps...
Ice-crushed
In this description of a 250 ton ship being crushed by the unforgiving shift and grind of pack ice, you...
Ice like …
A limpid description of bright, icy water, distillation of winter.
'In the center of large ponds, beneath the surface of...
Deep-keeled ice
An arresting image of ice grounding like a boat’s hull scraping a shallow sea-floor.
‘… the sound of deep-keeled ice...
The great freeze of London
Virginia Woolf's Orlando gets under the skin of different moments in a 400 year stretch of English history. Here she...
Ice-choked rivers
A European would normally use ‘choked’ to describe a river full of algae or weeds or pollution. ‘Ice-choked’ gives a...
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