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  • Further, there was Joe Lamson, the whaling captain, who, when ice-bound off the mouth of the Mackenzie, had had him come aboard after tobacco.

    A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

  • I suspect hoards of ice-bound New Yorkers loaded up the car the next day to move.

    Despite Problems, There's Still Gold in the Golden State 2011

  • The ice-bound town of Nome will likely get its emergency fuel supply this weekend from a Russian tanker that has taken three weeks to get there, as Alaska continues to be battered by one of the state's harshest winters in decades.

    Fuel Arrives, but Deep Freeze Endures Jim Carlton 2012

  • Further, there was Joe Lamson, the whaling captain, who, when ice-bound off the mouth of the Mackenzie, had had him, come aboard after tobacco.

    A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

  • The sailors, still ice-bound, threaten mutiny, and are calmed only when Frankenstein urges them on (III: Walton: 17), but two days later Walton agrees to return to England.

    Plot Summary 2010

  • Cleaning that requires a lot of fresh water, which is in short supply in the ice-bound taiga.

    Russian Oil Frontier: Nowhere Land Guy Chazan 2011

  • As previously ice-bound seaways open up through the North West passage and the Eurasian Northern Sea, disputes may rage over international navigation rights.

    Bianca Jagger: Now Is the Time to Move Beyond Petroleum Bianca Jagger 2010

  • He was the Burning Daylight of scores of wild adventures, the man who carried word to the ice-bound whaling fleet across the tundra wilderness to the

    Chapter XI 2010

  • As previously ice-bound seaways open up through the North West passage and the Eurasian Northern Sea, disputes may rage over international navigation rights.

    Bianca Jagger: Now Is the Time to Move Beyond Petroleum Bianca Jagger 2010

  • Their ice-bound moccasins were sadly worn by much travel, and the sharp ice of the river jams had cut them to rags.

    THE WISDOM OF THE TRAIL 2010

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