The journey by the St. Gotthard was delightful, the day brilliant, and the frost keen, while we watched the fleeting panorama of icebound peaks and snow-powdered pines from the cushions of our comfortable carriage.
"A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil"
T. R. Swinburne
Presently he caught sight of a hawk sailing southward along the peaks of the white icebound mountains above, on which the sun shone with such sharp insistence, making sky and mountain of a piece in deep purity and serene stillness.
"Northern Lights"
Gilbert Parker
The small streams and pools were icebound.
"Janice Day"
Helen Beecher Long