"Rivers of blood and hills of slain."
"They were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions."
"The sky shrunk upward with unusual dread,
And trembling Tiber div'd beneath his bed."
"So frowned the mighty combatants, that hell
Grew darker at their frown."
"I saw their chief tall as a rock of ice; his spear the blasted fir; his shield the rising moon; he sat on the shore like a cloud of mist on a hill."
Ice-cream—Ice-water. As for ice-cream, there is no such thing, as ice-cream would be the product of frozen cream, i. e., cream made from ice by melting. What is called ice-cream is cream iced; hence, properly, iced cream and not ice-cream. The product of melted ice is ice-water, whether it be cold or warm; but water made cold with ice is iced water, and not ice-water.
If. "I doubt if this will ever reach you": say, "I doubt whether this will ever reach you."
Ill. See [Sick].
Illy. It will astonish not a few to learn that there is no such word as illy. The form of the adverb, as well as of the adjective and the noun, is ill. A thing is ill formed, or ill done, or ill made, or ill constructed, or ill put together.
"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay."—Goldsmith.