Word: ices
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have received several communications on Spring, but, believing the majority of our readers to be sufficiently well acquainted with its features, we have thought it superfluous to print them. The ice in the river has broken up, and, the floats being out, rowing is now in order. This is a genuine indication of warmer weather...
...athlete, too, has abundant chance for exercise. The ice at Fresh Pond is black and smooth (unless it rains, as it has done, most of the time, for the past fortnight), and the celebrated pleasures of the "ringing steel" are at his command. The Brighton Road, too, in sleighing-time, affords a lively and interesting scene. How much better to enjoy it on foot than to run the risk of one of those dreadful accidents which happen every day to drivers there...
...ice-chafed granite borne...
...where one can look off to the hills and woods and feel the keen air. Now that club skates, star and acme skates, have come into fashion, we need not pinch our feet with the barbarous straps or numb our fingers in making our preparations to get on the ice. One difficulty in skating there certainly is in Cambridge: the only available lake is Fresh Pond, and it is almost impossible to make sure of there being smooth ice, but might not this trouble be removed by the energetic C. T. C. by means of a wire...
...great canoe, with snowy wings, came to our ice-bound strand...