Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. It was a steep bank, ...
— Jack London
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- Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey
- fifty degrees below zero
- the mysterious, far-reaching hairline trail
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