icefloes

Middle Age, the Church and its hierarchy were most necessary to set limits to the savage barbarism of those masters of violence, the princes and knights: it was what broke up the icefloes in that mighty deluge.

Religion 2004

The hurricane had carried her over the icebergs and icefloes, against which she was in danger of being dashed a hundred times or more.

Robur the Conqueror 2003

Eskimos an old man who waits by a blow-hole in the heavenly icefloes and listens for the breathing of seals.

The Eternal Maiden T. Everett Harr��

At daylight on the 11th we were still among icefloes, but going away from instead of meeting them, and on that morning we saw in the distance the coast of Iceland, which the Germans tried to persuade us was the sails of fishing boats, as they did not wish us to think we were so near the Icelandic coast, the first land that we had seen since the Maldive

Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf' Frederic George Trayes

We therefore went back again on our course, the Captain hoping that the wind would change and cease blowing the icefloes from off the shores of Greenland.

Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf' Frederic George Trayes

On the morning of February 7th we for the first time encountered icefloes, when attempting the northern passage between Greenland and

Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf' Frederic George Trayes

I passed within twenty miles of Niagara; I saw the serried icefloes sweeping down from Lake Erie to the cataract; and I did not go to see them plunge over.

America To-day, Observations and Reflections William Archer 1890

The hurricane had carried her over the icebergs and icefloes, against which she was in danger of being dashed a hundred times or more.

Robur the Conqueror Jules Verne 1866

The captain's face, which had looked gloomy, brightened, and he followed out the instructions given; while Skene, after twice over being on the point of barking loudly at the huge beasts scattered about amongst the icefloes, appeared as if he grasped the position and the meaning of the talking-to he had received, and stood there with his feet upon one of the thwarts well out of the way of the harpooner and his line, and watched the walrus with his ears quivering and playing about, taking evidently as much interest in the proceedings as his master.

Steve Young George Manville Fenn 1870