inwardly-slanting

Updated: May 14, 2025

The shrieks, the growls ceased, and the dead bear lay among the ruins of the igloo. The next day Anvik stayed away from school to help build a new igloo. His father and Tanana did not talk much, from the time when they laid the blocks of extremely hard snow in a circle till the time when the inwardly-slanting snow walls had risen to the topmost horizontal block that joined the walls.

Mary E. (Mary Ellen) Bamford - Out of the Triangle: a story of the Far East