What is "icelike"

Usage examples of "icelike".

Their firmers had been jammed, had turned the sand and dirt of their holes only to icelike conditions.

She was still wearing the torn, thin blue dress that gleamed with a pale, icelike glitter in the dimness of the dark barn.

There were fitted wooden windows, with panes of the clear icelike glass, and folding shutters.

As he watched, the icelike structure shimmered: tiny cracks forming, then healing instantly, leaving behind almost invisible changes.

Blaine, a cold shudder building in him, an icelike quality that was neither fear nor hate, but a part of both.

But as the lava had dumped its heat, the icelike crystals that contained the gases had melted, and the lid had come off the hydrate deposits.

The icelike carapace rendered the creature insectoid, even though it stood like a man.

These fragments are quickly reknit into the body of ice, which we shall hereafter term the glacier, and in this process the expulsion of the air goes on more rapidly than before, and the mass assumes a more transparent icelike quality.