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  • The general view from the summit consists of a sublime assemblage of ice-born rocks and mountains, long wavering ridges, meadows, lakes, and forest-covered moraines, hundreds of square miles of them.

    The Yosemite John Muir 1876

  • Through this rocky meadow now roamed, now rushed, now tumbled one of those Alpine streams the very thought of whose ice-born plenitude makes me happy yet.

    Wilfrid Cumbermede George MacDonald 1864

  • When Rooney awoke next morning, his ears told him that the rushing of ice-cold rivulets through ice-valleys, and the roar of ice-born cataracts had increased considerably during the hours of darkness.

    Red Rooney The Last of the Crew 1859

  • There were ice-born legends everywhere you turned, too, from Jean Beliveau to Scotty Bowman to Yvan Cournoyer.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Dave Feschuk 2010

  • It was not only that millions of white and glittering peaks, with facets and edges gleaming like diamonds, rose into the blue sky, but here and there open lanes of water, and elsewhere lakes and little ponds upon the melting ice caught the full orb of the rising sun, and sent its reflection into the man's eyes with dazzling refulgence, while the ripple or rush of ice-born water-falls and the plaintive cries of wild-fowl gave variety and animation to the scene.

    Red Rooney The Last of the Crew 1859

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