floes

• Broad glossy plaques toss on the waves: new ice floes, colliding, grinding, churning: the floes are at war, destroying one another's edges, but some are entering into treaties, uniting to form a single implacable shield. —  Starborne
• Now and then a carcass would become pinched between two ice-floes, and either go down entirely or else be forced out on the top of the ice, to be rafted along for a space until the cake upon which it rested suddenly up-ended or turned completely over in the maelstrom of swirling water and ice. —  Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
• Out on the floes was an exposed place--to vision as well as to wind and drift. —  The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice
• While on his way to the hut of Okiok he had also observed that a few seals were playing about on the margin of some ice-floes, and from other symptoms, recognisable only by angekoks, he had come to the conclusion that it would be safe as well as wise at that time to prophesy a period of plenty Now I would advise," he said, in concluding his discourse, "that we should send off a hunting party to the south, for I can tell you that seals will be found there--if the young men do not put off time on the way This last proviso was a judicious back-door of escape. —  Red Rooney The Last of the Crew
• The islands were still ringed with the pearly ring of ice-floes, and for one brief spring day, for this lover, it was enough to be yet imprisoned in the same bit of green earth with his lady, to think of all the noble things she had said and done, and, by her influence, to see new vistas opening into eternity in which they two walked together. —  The Mermaid A Love Tale

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