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  • They laughed, and then looking up saw that they were passing a portion of the coast of Seiland which was more than usually picturesque.

    Thelma Marie Corelli 1889

  • Seiland; the sun was dazzling; yet there was a mist in the air as though the heavens were full of unshed tears.

    Thelma Marie Corelli 1889

  • Following the current, she made swift way across the dark water in the direction of the island of Seiland, and presently became a wondrous Ship of Fire!

    Thelma Marie Corelli 1889

  • All this was intensely interesting to the good, stupid, gossiping fisher-folks of Bosekop, -- so much so, indeed, that they scarcely paid any heed to the spectacle of the fiery ship swaying suggestively on the heaving water, and drifting rapidly away -- away towards the frosted peaks of Seiland.

    Thelma Marie Corelli 1889

  • Seiland, and also declared his resolve to try the nearly impossible ascent of the great Jedkè glacier.

    Thelma Marie Corelli 1889

  • a vessel, his own pleasure yacht, -- which had taken three of his friends, at their special desire, to the opposite island of Seiland, -- Seiland, rising in weird majesty three thousand feet above the sea, and boasting as its chief glory the great peak of Jedkè, the most northern glacier in all the wild Norwegian land.

    Thelma Marie Corelli 1889

  • "In one of these islands," said Thelma at last, very softly -- "it was either Seiland or Soroe -- they once found the tomb of a great chief.

    Thelma Marie Corelli 1889

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