Fortunately, at this time the rays of the sun were warm enough to dry the furs in about three days, if lashed to the sunny side of a sled as we marched along, and strangely enough, the furs dried out without apparent thawing.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
While this thawing process was going on he prepared other shafts over which fires were also built.
"If Any Man Sin"
H. A. Cody
The slate-gray ramparts of the hills reeked with the wet of thawing snows.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck