newly-frozen

Updated: June 8, 2025

The newly-frozen plain could not bear the weight of an assaulting column. This circumstance, as it appeared favorable to the defenders of Irkutsk, Ogareff might have regretted. He did not do so, however. The traitor knew well that the Tartars would not try to pass the Angara, and that, on its side at least, their attempt was only a feint.

Jules Verne - Michael Strogoff : Or, The Courier of the Czar