It is, therefore, a season of rejoicing to the cooped-up sportsman when the middle of March arrives, attended, as is usually the case, by the first lasting thaws, and the advent of a few flocks of wild geese.
"Adrift in the Ice-Fields"
Charles W. Hall
During frosts and thaws the movements were twice as great.
"Lessons on Soil"
E. J. Russell
It was the least pleasant time of the year, too; for we had thaws of two or three days at a time, during which the hardened snow was turned into slush.
"Afar in the Forest"
W.H.G. Kingston