The sidewalks were wet underfoot, and the gutters ran with thawed snow.

They were a dirty grey, and very porous, like partly thawed snow.

Red-snow algae are red-pigmented unicellular algae that appear seasonally on the surface of thawing snow worldwide.

Tom built up the fire and thawed snow.

My hair, which was thoroughly wet with the thawed snow of yesterday, is hard frozen in plaits.

We went, through half- thawed snow and half-frozen rain, to the house where Christiana and her mother lived.

The blood oozed and squirted, forming patches, drops and rivulets, which ran down on the white, thawing snow.

From the portico, from the eaves, from the parapet, from every ledge and post and pillar, drips the thawed snow.

Many of the hollows contained water from thawed snow, and in others there was a treacherous crust which hid a slushy pool.

And Gabriel Andersen stood on the wet, thawing snow, craning his neck, trembling and stuttering, though he did not say a word.

Once there, he could wait for a hard freeze that would be certain to harden the half- thawed snow and make it fit for travel.

Many households around the country have been left without a water supply for another day after thawing snow and ice caused leaks in all areas.