Yes. Normally snow is white, but I'm guessing it was grayish because people had been walking all over it and getting it dirty. Am I right?
It works as a poetic touch, but it is not a standard verb.
He could have said crunched, but that would have been predictable. Creaked is more evocative. (Or as you say, poetic.)It works as a poetic touch, but it is not a standard verb.
My wife lived in Minnesota, a very snowy US state, for a long time. They have a word for gray snow there: snirt — part snow, part dirt.Yes. The city was dirty and polluted and because of the smog, the snow had turned grayish. Does that make sense?
What verb do you mean?
Creaked- floorboards creak, snow only does artistically.
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