... we glided along over virgin snow which had come soft-footedly over night, in a motion so smooth and silent as to suggest that wingless flight.
Frederick Philip Grove, Over Prairie Trails, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1951, p. 51.
PLACE: Rural Manitoba
TIME: 1916
... the snowflakes were small and like little round granules, hitting the panes of the windows with little sounds of "ping-ping"....
Frederick Philip Grove, Over Prairie Trails, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1951, p. 60.
PLACE: Rural Manitoba
TIME: 1916
Still the wind whistled and howled through the bleak, dark, hollow dawn;...
Frederick Philip Grove, Over Prairie Trails, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1951, p. 61.
PLACE: Rural Manitoba
TIME: 1916
I spoke to the horses in a soft, quiet, purring voice;...
Frederick Philip Grove, Over Prairie Trails, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1951, p. 69.
PLACE: Rural Manitoba
TIME: 1916
... the dry and hard-frozen stems snapped and broke with reports resembling pistol shots.
Frederick Philip Grove, Over Prairie Trails, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1951, p. 84.
PLACE: Rural Manitoba
TIME: 1916
I could rely on my horses: they would hear the bells of any encountering conveyance ....
Frederick Philip Grove, Over Prairie Trails, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1951, p. 97.
PLACE: Rural Manitoba
TIME: 1916
Everybody, of course, is familiar with the vibrations of telephone wires in a breeze. That humming sound ....
Frederick Philip Grove,Over Prairie Trails, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1951, p. 109.
PLACE: Rural Manitoba
TIME: 1916
The wind made a curious sound, something between an infuriated whistle and the sibilant noise a man makes when he draws his breath in sharply between his teeth.
Frederick Philip Grove, Over Prairie Trails, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1951, p. 114.
PLACE: Rural Manitoba
TIME: 1916
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