Usage examples for melting:

• A high fog was gradually melting out of the air. "Angel Island" – Inez Haynes Gillmore

• Matters had gone a great deal too far between the father and son to admit of the usual displeasure of an aggrieved parent- all that was over long ago; and Mr Wentworth could not restrain a certain melting of the heart towards his first- born. "The Perpetual Curate" – Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant

• His demand for finish ruined many of his verses, rubbing and melting and wearing them away, like frost and wind and rain, till they were worthless! "Home Again" – George MacDonald