Pools of icy water collected in the plastic sheets that traders had erected over their stalls.

He ran on through the icy water, stumbling on the glutinous sand, then skirted another sandbank -- no footprints, no footprints!

Too angry for tears, she drew away from him into a pool of icy water at the unwiped end of the seat, her hands clenched on her knees.

Most of the cub's body is out of the icy water, reducing heat loss.