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icicles

n. (plural of icicle English)

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College of Crossroads Brethren who supervised the well-being and spiritual life of the crossroads outside its double doors, especially the towerlike shrine to the Lares and the big fountain, which now flowed sluggishly amid a tumble of ethereally blue icicles, so cold was this winter.

Pointing mismatched hands, the fiend made icicles fly into the hapless dinosaurs, who hooted and mewled in pain and outrage.

Perpetual shadow reigned on the northern and western faces of these towering Nights--not enough warmth and sunshine reaching them in the cold months to check the growth of the ever-lengthening icicles hanging from the jutting cliffs, or melt the arabesque frostforms with which the many dashing cascades decorated the adjacent rocks and shrubbery.

The day was fine, but a bitter north wind was blowing, and the sun in the depths of the lower Forum not strong enough to melt the icicles hanging from temple eaves.

The noble fir on its stand in the corner had been strung with lights and popcorn, but it was still only partly decorated, and the box of ornaments that Bader had bought was on the floor nearby, opened and overturned, its contents --glass balls and brass snowflakes, wooden figures, china candy canes, silver icicles and paper stars--all spilled out in a jumble on the braided rug.

In the doorway to a back room stood a stooped man with thin, graying hair and an expression as sharp as the icicles on his eaves.

The rain from the night before had frozen into long icicles that hung outside the windows and door like prison bars.