Occasionally the ice groaned, but you could stamp your feet on that temporary terra firma and feel grounded in the embrace of Old Man Winter.

The ice groaned as it was compressed by its forced passage through the mountains, which towered above them to either side, blue-gray and forbidding.

By turns, the ice creaked and groaned, rippled like dashed pebbles, snapped and roared like the blaze of dry firewood.

Above him the ice suddenly groaned, as if beneath some ponderous weight.

The ice groaned in an undertone that blended with the wizard's voice.

By night the ice in the bay boomed and groaned, sometimes cracked explosively, so that she dreamed of the assault on Sheffield, groaning herself.

The ice groaned faintly under the plane's skidding weight but held firm.

But, to Hayley's relief, the ice groaned and cracked, and Frosya scrambled up the bank, shaking her head.

Massively, the ice creaked and groaned, like an old door protesting being opened.

The ice groaned.