snow-glint

Updated: July 9, 2026

He had been drinking hard for some days, and, now the excitement of action had gone off, was fearfully nervous. The snow-glint had dizzied his head, too, and he began to see strange shapes forming themselves in the shade of each hollow, and start at each stumble of his horse. A swift-flying shadow upon the snow, and a rush of wings overhead. An eagle.

Henry Kingsley - Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn