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Blizzard   /blˈɪzərd/   Listen
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Blizzard  n.  A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast. (U. S.)






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"Blizzard" Quotes from Famous Books



... year we had the big thaw, about twelve years before the war? You mind the blizzard that year? I heard tell it spread down most to York. And at Fort Orange, the place they call Albany now, the Hudson froze right over, so they say. But those York folks do a ...
— Year of the Big Thaw • Marion Zimmer Bradley

... a small blizzard," remarked Clara, "and it seems to be growing worse. Doesn't look much like baseball; ...
— Baseball Joe in the Big League - or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles • Lester Chadwick

... would go all right in poetry, wouldn't they? They're sassy little cusses, and I don't know of anything that would rhyme with 'em, but maybe you do.) And read it all out to me after supper. Maybe it'll make me kinda forget there's a blizzard on." ...
— The Lure of the Dim Trails • by (AKA B. M. Sinclair) B. M. Bower

... back from a northern lake, stood a weather-beaten farmhouse, creaking in a heavy winter blizzard. It was an old-fashioned, many-pillared structure. The earmarks of hard winters and the fierce suns of summer were upon it. From the main road it was scarcely discernible, settled, as it was, behind a row of pine trees, which in the ...
— Rose O'Paradise • Grace Miller White

... drenching. It was a near thing, and with the thermometer falling a degree a minute soaked garments might have brought very unpleasant consequences. But that was our only risk. Old mountaineer as I am, I hardly expected such a blizzard in August, after such short notice too. Otherwise, now that we are safely housed, you are fortunate in securing a memorable experience. The storm will soon blow over; but it promises to ...
— The Silent Barrier • Louis Tracy


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