snow-wreath

Why, man, I should have been an expounder of the word, with a wig like a snow-wreath, and a stipend like — like — like a hundred pounds a year, I suppose.

Redgauntlet 2008

With all this care, it seemed strange the sick girl did not get well; yet such was the case: she wasted like any snow-wreath in thaw; she faded like any flower in drought.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Suddenly through the snow-wreath that surrounded her she saw something waving.

Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods Alice B. Emerson

Then, to be sure, you froze your back while you burned your face, your water froze nightly in your pitcher, your breath congealed in ice-wreaths on the blankets, and you could write your name on the pretty snow-wreath that had sifted in through the window-cracks.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

"And I am desolé, mesdames, that you have not want of me;" and the graceful Alphonse melted away like a snow-wreath in a south wind.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

A little form of airy lightness, a very snow-wreath, blew into them.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

She saw him bend the bow and saw the swift flight of the arrow as it shot out of the chasm and curved out of sight beyond the broken edge of the snow-wreath which masked the summit of the cliff.

Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box Alice B. Emerson

He would turn as pale as a snow-wreath, and melt into nothing just about as quick.

Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern

Oh, the windy morn of Matlock, when the last snow-wreath had gone,

The Magpie’s Song 1918

In short, it was one of those moments of intense feeling, when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow-wreath, and the dissolving torrent carries dam and dyke before it.

Chapter LV 1917