After speaking to a schoolboy in La Martiniere School, Kolkata, who's just boasted that the only language he uses is English, Snow narrows his eyes and offers: "I'm about to say something controversial, but I wonder if Macaulay's wish to create a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect hasn't come true here".
It is the first weekend of November, and a light snow glazes narrow country roads that zigzag through miles of cornfields.
After such toasts and then a few more, gathering friends on the way, Mamuka led us through the falling snow and narrow winding streets crammed with houses with carved wooden verandas to a cellar restaurant.
Most main roads had been cleared down to the pavement, though many Buffalo side streets remained impassable or narrowed by snow piles.
As the road narrows from four lanes to two, the chorus of green is muffled by layers of snow.
I spent the holidays in Boston, where, in the span of five days, the weather went from a dense winter chill — roads dangerously narrowed by banked snow, icicles the size of swords dangling above our doorway — to a balmy fifty degrees.
I spent the holidays in Boston, where, in the span of five days, the weather went from a dense winter chill roads dangerously narrowed by banked snow, icicles the size of swords dangling above our doorway to a balmy fifty degrees.
By Jenna Krajeski December 30, 2008 I spent the holidays in Boston, where, in the span of five days, the weather went from a dense winter chill — roads dangerously narrowed by banked snow, icicles the size of swords dangling above our doorway — to a balmy fifty degrees.
Tells about the difficulties of the trek: snow, walking on narrow mountain paths, unreliable porters & guides.
Rain and snow on the narrow mountain roads kept most firefighters from a blaze east of Rocky Mountain National Park early today.
He dons the helmet and looks down to put on his skis, which he lays parallel in the snow, along the narrow ridge.
