icebergs

• I never shall forget the turning of an iceberg during the dreadful gale which lasted for a month and three days I don't know what that means, sir Why, you must know, Jacob, that the icebergs are all fresh water, and are supposed to have been detached from the land by the force of the weather and other causes. —  Jacob Faithful
• This is the real thing this time--icebergs, and lots of them. —  Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour
• This morning the fog cleared away, and we could see how good the Lord had been to us, for the icebergs were still surrounding us, but had never been permitted to come nigh our vessel. —  With the Harmony to Labrador Notes of a Visit to the Moravian Mission Stations on the North-East Coast of Labrador
• At noon we had soundings, with one hundred and twenty fathoms of line, on a bottom of fine sand, which makes it probable that most of the icebergs were aground in this place. —  Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
• These efforts, one and all, spent their fire as vainly as Darwin spent his wrath against the icebergs: the icebergs are as big and as cold as ever; and war is still, like a basking snake, ready to rear his horrid crest on the least rustling in the forests But in quarters more powerful than either purses of gold or scholastic reveries, there has, since the days of Kant and Cowper, begun to gather a menacing thundercloud against war. —  Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1

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