Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The peculiar reflection that arises from fields of ice or snow: same as
ice-blink . Also calledsnow-light .
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Examples
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For the most part, they were lean and spare, bronzed by frost and snow-blink, and straight of limb, for, though scarcely half of them were Canadian born, the prairie, as a rule, swiftly sets its stamp upon the newcomer.
Hawtrey's Deputy Harold Bindloss 1905
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For the most part, they were lean, spare, straight of limb and bronzed by frost and snow-blink, for though scarcely half of them were Canadian born, the prairie, as a rule, swiftly sets its stamp upon the newcomer.
Masters of the Wheat-Lands Harold Bindloss 1905
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Virginia leaned over the railing to look past the car and the dovecote station shading her eyes to shut out the snow-blink from the sun-fired peaks.
A Fool for Love Francis Lynde 1893
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He stood with the jewel between his thumb and forefinger, eyeing her fixedly, and on his handsome features shone a smile, treacherous and chilling as arctic snow-blink.
St. Elmo. A Novel. Augusta Jane 1867
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