1.   Below us sparkled the Garbh Uisge, bouncing noisily down from the melting snows over jumbled slabs.

2.   Melting snow floods the valleys each spring.

3.   The Great River swept sluggishly through meads that were aflame with buttercups and dotted with the last patches of melting snow.

4.   The mountain streams had been swollen by melting snows.

5.   The roof itself was holed in places, and melting snow dripped to the floor and spread in muddy puddles.

6.   In spring the melting snows usually produce a cataract that inundates the valley.

7.   They turned, staying in the centre of Cheapside as the melting snow began to slide from the sloping tiled roofs.

8.   Large rivers are fed by the melting snow and ice from the mount and the rivers are a source of water for people and crops in India and Pakistan.

9.   And with that, the senator from Texas was out of the van, striding through melting snow into a factory in Pembroke, N.H., running for president.

10.   And the milder weather combined with the melting snow and ice to produce thousands of potholes on city streets and highways.