22 Verbs to Use for the Word iceberg

Then he sent his message: "Have struck an iceberg; badly damaged; rush aid; steamship Titanic; 41.46 N., 50.14 W." There was no other ship in sight.

The polar current sets OUT of Baffin's Bay southward, bringing icebergs down, not leaves up, through Davis's Straits.

I've plenty of time for thinking!" "Have you seen an iceberg?" "Yes, one floated down pretty near us going outthe air was chillier and we found her glittering majesty was the cause of it.

Near at hand were the black rocks, eternally wet and smoking with the fog and gale; beyond towered the icebergs, pale, cold, glittering like spires of silver in the moonlight; far away, like a vague shadow, a handful of little gray houses clung like barnacles to the base of a great bare hill whose foot was in the sea and whose head wavered among the clouds of heaven.

The sea in this bay is open only from the commencement of July to the end of September, and even then the navigator very often encounters icebergs, which expose him to considerable embarrassment.

To amuse them, I passed an opera-glass around among them, with which they examined the iceberg and the coast.

Sometimes I would startle from sleep, horrified to the heart at some sound of exploding iceberg, or bumping floe, noising far through that white mystery of quietude, where the floes and bergs were as floating tombs, and the world a liquid cemetery.

Upon their southward way They greet the beryl-tinted icebergs; greet Flamy volcanoes and the seething founts Of geysers, and the melancholy yellow Of the Icelandic fields; and, wearying Their lily wings amid the boreal lights, Journey away unto the joyous shores Of morning.

The chance of his actually hitting an iceberg was scarce one in a hundred.

he hurls down icebergs in his wrath, he tosses them about, upon the streams he tosses the kyaks like feathers and washes the land with the waves of Sitth.

Shut in on the coast of eternal ice and silence,silence, save when in summer the Arctic rivers were alive, and crash after crash announced that the glaciers coming down from the inland mountains were "casting their calves," the great icebergs, upon the ocean,the colonists counted the days from the one when that year's ship was lost to sight till the returning spring brought the next one, their only communication with their far-off home.

It was like trying to melt an iceberg with a sunbeam to thaw that callous nature.

I am glad you are making such special effort to oppose the icebergs of foreign life; God will meet and bless you in it.

At this moment a tremendous roar was heard, and O'Riley bounded from behind a top-sail, which represented an iceberg, dressed from head to foot in the skin of a white bear which had been killed a few days before.

To the north and east, the ocean, dark and sparkling, was, by the magic action of the wind, entirely clear of fog; and there, about two miles distant, stood revealed the iceberg in all its cold and solitary glory.

Fresh water began to trickle from the rocks, and streamlets commenced to run down the icebergs.

They pointed to the sun that sank lower toward the horizon every day, and shivered as if from extreme cold, and they showed their visitors the icebergs and the snow, making them understand that it would cover the house by and by.

On and on he winged his way, among toppling icebergs and over frozen billows and through air which the sun never warmed, and at last he came to the cavern where the three Gray Sisters dwelt.

"I mean that I am going to try to meet your iceberg.

We were now close upon the point just behind which we expected to behold the iceberg.

And, although we can't quite sympathise with his suggestion that detachments of sappers and miners be employed in the spring-time, in Arctic (and doubtless also Antarctic) regions, in blowing up icebergs and otherwise facilitating the operations of old Sol, we give the ingenious Frenchman credit for at least as much philosophic acumen as we ourselves possess: and Heaven only knows how superb a compliment we thus convey!

So drifting icebergs, setting with a current, wreck the ships.

22 Verbs to Use for the Word  iceberg