overdrifted

Updated: May 28, 2025

And then I lift my face, awaking, from my pillow; the pallid moon is on the valley, and the room is filled with spectral light. I sleep, and change my dreaming. This is a hospice in an unfrequented pass, between sad peaks, beside a little black lake, overdrifted with soft snow. I pass into the house-room, gliding silently.

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series

Here and there the steam plough had thrown its furrows, on either side of the railroad, high above the window line. The fences were muffled in long ridges of snow, their stakes showing like pins in a cushion of white velvet. Some of the small trees on the edge of the big timber stood overdrifted to their boughs.

Irving Bacheller - Eben Holden, a tale of the north country