Riddle #18
June 11th, 2006 at 1:33 am (riddle)
My step is slow, the snow’s my breath,I give the ground a grinding death.My marching makes an end to me,slain by sun or drowned in sea. Answer: [Glacier](Answers are in white text, select it to reveal)
June 11th, 2006 at 1:33 am (riddle)
My step is slow, the snow’s my breath,I give the ground a grinding death.My marching makes an end to me,slain by sun or drowned in sea. Answer: [Glacier](Answers are in white text, select it to reveal)
Alethia said,
June 11, 2006 at 3:54 am
Winter, perhaps?
Nuno said,
June 11, 2006 at 8:01 am
Could it be a glacier?
Mika said,
June 11, 2006 at 1:15 pm
I’m guessing snowflake?
blah said,
June 11, 2006 at 6:11 pm
The wind?
blah said,
June 11, 2006 at 7:51 pm
Oh wait, Nuno is right. It’s a glacier.
scooter said,
June 18, 2006 at 5:37 pm
hey, um, this one stinks. “the snows my breath”??? i mean, come on…that makes no sense. Go back to glacier school. They don’t have ice breath, genius.
marty said,
June 18, 2006 at 6:32 pm
It’s a riddle. Riddles commonly use this type of anthropomorphism.
The start of the line refers to a step, which is establishing the line as a comparitive to a living thing. I suppose next you’ll say Glacier’s can’t walk either, so how can they take a step. In the same way the line referring to breath is what is being exhaled (or let out) as it moves, which can be considered snow.
Apples said,
July 5, 2007 at 4:40 pm
ice
jessica said,
September 19, 2013 at 4:08 pm
glacier