glacial

• His gray eyes were glacial, as warm as an arctic sky as he gave her a cursory glance, then walked to the bar. —  Jackson, Lisa - See How she dies 2
• But a complete and exact knowledge of which animal types are of glacial, and which of Atlantic origin, is of the greatest importance, not only for zoology and the geography of animals, but also for the geology of Scandinavia, and especially for the knowledge of our loose earthy layers Few scientific discoveries have so powerfully captivated the interest, both of the learned and unlearned, as that of the colossal remains of elephants, sometimes well preserved, with flesh and hair, in the frozen soil of Siberia. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
• Low grumbling noises and gurglings were heard underfoot, as if great boulders were dropping into buried lakes from the roofs of sub-glacial caverns, while, on the surface, the glacier was strewn here and there with debris which had fallen from steep parts of the mountains that rose beside them into the clouds. —  Rivers of Ice
• The sub-glacial murmuring of many waters filled many hearts with anxious care, and numerous households near the river's brink sat up the live-long night to watch--perhaps to pray. —  The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood
• When champagne goes rightly nothing can well go wrong.” These precepts are sound enough, still all dinner-parties are not necessarily glacial, and the guests are not invariably mutes. —  Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

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