ice-cake

Between them they got the sled ashore and up into a crevice in time to see the ice-cake up-edge, sink, and down-shelve from view.

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Regnar caught sight of a small ice-cake floating by the windward side of their floe, and leaping upon it, with pole and hands they shoved it along the steep walls of ice, and with their united force gave it a final impetus in the desired direction.

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

It was a large ice-cake, which had come floating down the river and touched the elm stump.

Chums of the Camp Fire Lawrence J. Leslie

Next day he succeeded in finding his boat, safely lodged among some willows; but the beaver was missing, having probably been jarred off the nest on the stub by the ice-cake striking against it.

Chums of the Camp Fire Lawrence J. Leslie

She was awakened by a tremendous shock, and a struggle, and a fall into the water, and before she could see or know what had happened to her, two strong arms were round her, and she was drawn again upon the ice-cake, and her brother was bending close above her, and he was saying:

St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 Various

The ice-cake was a large and solid one, twenty feet across at least; and, owing to the falling of the river, it was floating down the centre of the channel.

Chums of the Camp Fire Lawrence J. Leslie

The river had lowered considerably, and Mortimer, while searching for his boat, saw numerous ice-rafts moving down the channel; yet he could not repress a conviction that something more than mere good fortune had directed the ice-cake to touch at his bleak and comfortless perch in the nick of time to save his life.

Chums of the Camp Fire Lawrence J. Leslie

"Well, I'm beat now!" remarked Mr. Beamish, as with both hands buried in the coarse hair by which he had dragged the bear to the surface, for it had gone under when the ice-cake had been broken against the jam of logs which had stopped it, he looked up at his little daughter's pale face.

St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 Various

In the middle of the night the loosened ice-cake on Vomb Lake moved about, till one corner of it touched the shore.

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils 1922

Presently, she leaned back against an ice-cake and fell asleep.

The Blue Envelope 1918