He brought with him his horse cloth as well as his other belongings.

The men, who were clearly in a hurry to be away, pushed the boat off from the shore as soon as he had taken his place.
"We want to be back as soon as we can," the owner of the boat said, "for it will not be long before the ice begins to form, and we don't want to be frozen in." "It does not feel to me quite so cold this morning," Fergus remarked.
"No, sir; we are going to have more snow.

That won't matter to us, and if it snows for the next week, all the better.

It is not often that the river closes altogether until after Christmas.

In the mountains the river seldom freezes at all.