driven snow

[¦driv·ən ′snō]

(meteorology)

Snow which has been moved by wind and collected into snowdrifts.

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Much the same is it with the backwoodsman of the West, who with comparative indifference views an unbounded prairie sheeted with driven snow, no shadow of tree or twig to break the fixed trance of whiteness.

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It was a blauwbok, a superb animal of a pale-bluish color shading upon the gray, but with the belly and the inside of the legs as white as the driven snow.

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She now used her hands as a comb, and if her feet had seemed like bits of crystal in the water, her hands looked like pieces of driven snow among her locks; all which increased not only the admiration of the three beholders, but their anxiety to learn who she was.

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The first pitch is nigh two hundred feet, and the water looks like flakes of driven snow afore it touches the bottom; and there the stream gathers itself together again for a new start, and maybe flutters over fifty feet of flat rock before it falls for another hundred, when it jumps about from shelf to shelf, first turning this-away and then turning that-away, striving to get out of the hollow, till it finally comes to the plain.

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I like my digestive tract to be pure as the driven snow.

Shirley I need nip of Scotch courage; ECK LENNY

A self-driven propelled engine auger/impeller, build from ground up as an airport snow blower, based on two stages mechanical driven snow clearing system which consists of a horizontal auger and fast rotating impeller and with blower capacity at minimum 5.

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His older brothers and other relatives are criminals and users, but he's as pure (and stupid) as the driven snow.

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Please include your initials and where you live WITH regard to the letter from Bill Sharples ( Your Shout, January 17), it's as clear as the driven snow.