"At seven o'clock, the blackness was broken by a last display of the aurora borealis, which showed to the west a broad opening between snow-clad mountains."
"His Lapland abode is snow-clad Rovaniemi, where the shopping mall, Santa Claus Village, continues to do a roaring trade in such luxury goods as reindeer furs and Finnish vodka."
"The blue lake, and snow-clad mountains, they never change; — and I think our placid home, and our contented hearts are regulated by the same immutable laws."