Meaning of thaw-drop | Babel Free

Definitions

A drop of water formed by melting snow or ice.

Examples

“When she gave me one cold parting kiss upon my forehead, like⟳ a thaw-drop from the stone porch——it was a very frosty day——I felt so miserable and self-reproachful that I clung to her and told her it was my fault, I knew, that she could say⟳ good-bye so easily!”

“Down the steep bank led the narrow pathway, rendered exceeding slippery by the freezing of thaw-drops from the overhanging trees.”

“From a rhombus of saffron light⟳ in the middle distance the notes of a bamboo flute, cool and blue as the thaw-drops on the edge of a glacier, mournful and languishing crotchets, crept toward them on the gently stirring air.”

“I was rewarded at last⟳, upon choosing one, by the sight of what might be described as the dot of an exclamation mark⟳ leaving its ordinary position to glide down very fast - a jot faster than the thaw-drop it raced.”

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