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A gigantic _sérac_ of ice offered them a hollow at its base.— Tartarin On The Alps
Bompard seized his arm: "Horrors! the _sérac!— Tartarin On The Alps
All sorts of wild speculations flew through the writer's mind as, in the lead that day, he first crested the sérac that gave view of the cache.— The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America
The ice of the upper glacier, which fills the Grand Basin, came terracing down from some four thousand feet above us and six miles beyond us, with progressive leaps of jagged blue sérac between the two peaks of the mountain, and, almost at our feet, fell away with cataract curve to its precipitation four thousand feet below us.— The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America
Here we were at the upper end of one of the flats of the glacier that fills the Grand Basin, the sérac of another great rise just above us.— The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America

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