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  • He had endured midwinter darkness in Russia where the temperature dropped to forty below: endless blizzards, snow and black ice, the only cheer the green neon palm tree that burned twenty-four hours a day outside the provincial bar where his father liked to drink.†  (source)
  • And even before Thanksgiving, the weather had been cold enough to freeze the freshwater part of the river; there was black ice all the way from Gravesend to Kensington Corners.†  (source)
  • You know all about the terrible beauty of datumplane, the three-dimensional highways with their landscapes of black ice and neon perimeters and Day-Glo Strange Loops and shimmering skyscrapers of data blocks under hovering clouds of AI presence.†  (source)
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  • I joined a soul band, Black Ice, on the other side of town, playing any instrument I could round up-sax, flute, and bass, all borrowed.†  (source)
  • But, lying on the black ice there, Billy stared into the patina of the corporal's boots, saw Adam and Eve in the golden depths.†  (source)
  • It was around October, and there was black ice all over the mountain roads as she drove the friend's car toward Montana.†  (source)
  • Down below we got sleet, which froze overnight into oceans of black ice.†  (source)
  • Mountains of snow melted into hills while the February thaw brought the fun of flash flooding, swollen creeks, and black ice when the thermometer dropped to freezing each night.†  (source)
  • For a moment she thought she saw something spark in his eyes, but a moment later they were black ice again.†  (source)
  • He shuffled like an old man, as if the carpet under his feet was really a slick sheet of black ice.†  (source)
  • Jon was armored in black ice, but his blade burned red in his fist.†  (source)
  • Myra drove me there: in view of the black ice caused by a thaw followed by a freeze, it was too slippery for me to walk, she said.†  (source)
  • Transparent mountain ranges of data, endless glaciers of ROMworks, access ganglia spreading like fissures, iron clouds of semisentient internal pro:ess bubbles, glowing pyramids of primary source stuff, each guarded by lakes of black ice and armies of black-pulse pilages.†  (source)
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