What is man but a mass of thawing clay?
It was thawing and misty; at forty paces' distance nothing could be seen.
The fingers and toes flow to their extent from the thawing mass of the body.
They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.
The ground remained frozen and so the thawing snows and heavy rain, combined and the flood resulted.