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  • For, like, ordinary collections of water, an ice-lake also has its outlet into the sea.

    The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

  • Sentimentality, frozen under the cutting breath of derision, resembles that loathsome ice-lake of poison in the Scandinavian hell.

    The Friendships of Women William Rounseville Alger 1863

  • I am not, however, as yet a believer in the ice-lake theory, but I tremble for the result.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • Treig (I do not believe that valley has been well examined in its upper end) leaves hardly a doubt that a glacier descended from it, and, if the roads were formed by a lake of any kind, I believe it must have been an ice-lake.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • "Scotsman," in which I give briefly my present impression (though there is not space to argue with you on such points as I think I could argue), and indicate what points strike me as requiring further investigation with respect, chiefly, to the ice-lake theory, so that you will not care about it ...

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • - Darwin on ice-lake theory of Agassiz and Buckland.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • But the oddest result of your paper on me (and I assure you, as far as I know myself, it is not perversity) is that I am very much staggered in favour of the ice-lake theory of Agassiz and

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • At the same time his senses are open to every impression from things around him, only they appear to him in a strangely exalted metamorphosis, the reflex of his own mental exaltation either in bliss or torture, while the fancies of a man mingle with the facts thus introduced and modify and are in turn modified by them; whereby out of the chaos arises the mountain of an Earthly Paradise, whose roots are in the depths of hell; and whether the man be with the divine air and the clear rivers and the thousand-hued flowers on the top, or down in the ice-lake with the tears frozen to hard lumps in the hollows of his eyes so that he can no more have even the poor consolation of weeping, is but the turning of a hair, so far at least as his will has to do with it.

    Thomas Wingfold, Curate George MacDonald 1864

  • At the same time his senses are open to every impression from things around him, only they appear to him in a strangely exalted metamorphosis, the reflex of his own mental exaltation either in bliss or torture, while the fancies of a man mingle with the facts thus introduced and modify and are in turn modified by them; whereby out of the chaos arises the mountain of an Earthly Paradise, whose roots are in the depths of hell; and whether the man be with the divine air and the clear rivers and the thousand-hued flowers on the top, or down in the ice-lake with the tears frozen to hard lumps in the hollows of his eyes so that he can no more have even the poor consolation of weeping, is but the turning of a hair, so far at least as his will has to do with it.

    Thomas Wingfold, Curate V1 George MacDonald 1864

  • (figured by Agassiz, and seen by myself but not noticed, as I thought it might have been a sheep track) -- it might yet have been formed on the ice-lake theory by two independent glaciers going across the Spean, but it is very improbable that two such immense ones should not have been united into one.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

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