1.   In the light of the setting sun his eyes glittered like blue ice.

2.   They were like chips of blue ice, his lips compressed into a thin line.

3.   He staggered to his feet, swaying a little, his eyes like chips of blue ice.

4.   As if on cue, a fluffy white Arctic fox appeared over a ridge of blue ice to look over Kunuk and his three hunting companions before scurrying away.

5.   At least compared to falling on some January blue ice on a cranky Olde New England trail.

6.   But for mythic allure nothing matches the skyward bolt of molten rock and blue ice that rises from nearly sea level in the backyard of three million people.

7.   Ice connoisseurs, they rhapsodize up here about cauliflower ice, blue ice, milky ice, clear ice, white ice -- all variations on rime ice.

8.   Negotiating icicles the size of trees, winter climbers had a hard enough time scaling the blue ice cliffs of Bridal Veil Falls without worrying about the police.

9.   Sometimes it is like a real hard snap, he says, a cold thunder fired through the blue Arctic ice.

10.   Sometimes it was blue ice -- newly frozen rain just under the surface.