29 examples of ice-field in sentences

For ages it had meant to the timid: Beware the fury of the shattered ice-fields; beware the caprice of the flood.

A group of evergreen trees, firs and the Alaska spruce, so useful for fires and torches, fringed the edge of the ice-field, green and verdant in contrast to the gleaming snows of the mountain, which rose in a gentle slope at first, then precipitously, in a dazzling and enchanting combination of colour.

The Carmania, three days in advance of the Titanic, ran into the ice-field on Thursday.

They pushed across to examine them closer, following them a dozen yards to the edge of the ice-field.

The man on the ice-field did the only thing possible.

If the dwellers of the deep fjords, the somber fir-clad mountain valleys, and the bleak ice-fields do not "open their lips so readily for song" as the people of southern lands where the sun creates an eternal spring, it is not because they are without lyric power, as is clearly apparent from the rich and varied folk-songs and the splendid creative work of Edvard Grieg.

The Rhone Glacier, the only ice-field that I crossed, is upwards of nine miles in length and rises from 5,751 feet to 10,450 feet in height.

Another few steps and I was on an endless ice-field.

Up to the limits of the ice-fields, every shore is mapped out, every shoal sounded.

témpano, m., mass of ice, ice-field, ice-mountain, iceberg.

The sea-lion, with its stouter limbs, can lift its forepart, raise its head and look about it, and even flop about the ice-fields at a respectable rate.

"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.

I am tired of this; and I cannot live on an ice-field.

These ice-fields slowly move down the mountain sides.

Many large rivers begin in melting ice-fields.

After journeying on for a considerable distance, the men were ordered to spread out over the neighbouring ice-fields, in order to multiply the chances of discovering tracks; but there seemed to be some irresistible power of attraction which drew them gradually together again, however earnestly they might try to keep separate.

After exploring the Sumdum and Tahkoo fiords and their glaciers, we sailed through Stephen's Passage into Lynn Canal and thence through Icy Strait into Cross Sound, searching for unexplored inlets leading toward the great fountain ice-fields of the Fairweather Range.

Then, hours later, at nightfall, he would slink home, downcast, dispirited, desperate, staggering along the road under the star-light as if he were drunk, repressing the tears burning in his eyes, longing for the peace of death, like a weary explorer who must go on and on breaking his way over one ice-field after another.

Through the Surenen's fearful mountain chain, Where dreary ice-fields stretch on every side, And sound is none save the hoarse vulture's cry, I reach'd the Alpine pasture, where the herds From Uri and from Engelberg resort, And turn their cattle forth to graze in common.

All the Cows low, from the Buffalo roaming the prairie, the Musk-Ox of the Arctic ice-fields, or the Jack of Asia, to the Cattle feeding in our pastures.

He was ordinarily gone from three to four days, though it was nothing unusual for him to stay away a week at a time on the ice-field.

ARCTIC OCEAN, a circular ocean round the N. Pole, its diameter 40°, with low, flat shores, covered with ice-fields, including numerous islands; the Gulf Stream penetrates it, and a current flows out of it into the Atlantic.

The interior comprises lava and sand tracts, and ice-fields, but outside these are river valleys and lake districts affording pasturage, and arable land capable of producing root crops.

straight from the ice-fields of the Pole, he thought.

In fever delirium they ran out in the ice-fields or threw themselves into the sea.

29 examples of  ice-field  in sentences