... eternal silence blanketing forest-world and clearing. But she was allowed to make ... — O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various
... went into winter quarters. While they had been gone their comrades had built a palisaded fort beside the little river where the ships lay moored. They were hardly settled in this rude shelter before snow began to fall, and seemed as if it would go on forever, softly blanketing the earth with layer on layer of cold whiteness. It was waist-deep on the level; the river was frozen solid; the drifts were above the sides of the ships, and the ice was four inches thick on the bulwarks. ... — Days of the Discoverers • L. Lamprey
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