16 adjectives to describe iceberg

Doctor Wallich, naturalist attached to Sir Leopold McClintock's expedition to survey the Northern route, considers it impracticable on account of the volcanic nature of the bottom of the sea near Iceland, and the ridges of rock and the immense icebergs near Greenland.

On the other side of the table Mr. Medbourne was involved in a calculation of dollars and cents, with which was strangely intermingled a project for supplying the East Indies with ice, by harnessing a team of whales to the polar icebergs.

Tom Swift and his flying boat; or, The castaways of the giant iceberg.

When I was exploring the glaciers between Mount Fairweather and the Stikeen River, one cold day in November, after trying in vain to force a way through the innumerable icebergs of Sum Dum Bay to the great glaciers at the head of it, I was weary and baffled and sat resting in my canoe convinced at last that I would have to leave this part of my work for another year.

I shall become a little iceberg, for the sake of floating down to melt off Martinique!" "Warm yourself now in the sunset; such a blaze was kindled for the purpose.

But when Araminta and Fiametta on a sudden, just after the leap-year dance, wholly, and, as we thought, basely, deserted us for that emblem of conscious rectitude, Sam Wilkins, a man whose eye couldn't learn to twinkle in a thousand years, a mere human iceberg, then it was that we were astounded.

They could not stop to bail, and the miniature icebergs they passed began to look significantly over the gunwale.

When approached they vanish, and nothing remains but a rugged rock, or a misshapen iceberg.

And has it seemed, sometimes, That drowning might be pleasanter up there Among the icebergs, native to those climes, Than where

But the general appearance of the dried sea-bottom would be a dreary and lifeless waste of sands, gravels, loose boulders, and boulder-bearing clays; and wherever a boss of bare rock still stood up, it would be found ground down, and probably polished and scored by the ponderous icebergs which had lumbered over it in their passage out to sea.

"See the slim iceberg with the top afire!"

There is Bryant, as quiet, as cool, and as dignified, As a smooth, silent iceberg that never is ignified, Save when by reflection 't is kindled o' nights With a semblance of flame by the chill Northern Lights.

"Surely not go further among these dreadful icebergs?

remarked Tom Singleton to Fred one night, as they sat in their favourite outlook, the main-top, gazing down on the glassy sea, which was covered with snowy icebergs and floes, and bathed in the rays of the sun; "and how wonderful to think that the sun will only set for an hour or so, and then get up as splendid as ever!"

"No: we have been in the cold long enough, and I am rejoiced that we have no more enormous icebergs to encounterno more still ice-fields stretching away in every direction, or clashing and grinding under the influence of mighty stormsno more mountains cased in eternal ice; but we have really bid adieu to the wintry desolation of those frozen regions that 'Lie dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms.'" MR. STANLEY.

Many a tired head sought an early pillow, and floated away in dreams of ghoulish icebergs, until the call for breakfast disclosed to opening eyes that the boat was anchored in the BEAUTIFUL HARBOR OF SITKA.

16 adjectives to describe  iceberg