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Examples

  • She pulled her companion into the dark side of an ice-pile.

    The Blue Envelope 1918

  • At length, with patience exhausted, she climbed the highest ice-pile and gazed away to the north.

    The Blue Envelope 1918

  • Phi did not sit long on the ice-pile under the snow-fog.

    The Blue Envelope 1918

  • Lucile worked her way about the ice-pile to a point where she could see through a crack between cakes, then she motioned Marian to join her.

    The Blue Envelope 1918

  • At every ice-pile they rounded, he expected to catch sight of human figures.

    The Blue Envelope 1918

  • When he had fairly given up hope of overtaking them, as he speeded around a gigantic ice-pile he came at once in sight of those he followed.

    The Blue Envelope 1918

  • Cautiously, they turned and made their way from ice-pile to ice-pile, from the rubbish heap toward camp.

    The Blue Envelope 1918

  • It was only a matter of time until the cabin would bump upon an ice-pile.

    Panther Eye 1918

  • Blotting out the black ribbon of water and every ice-pile that was more than a stone's throw from them, it swept on to the south with a silence that was more appalling than had been the grinding scream of a tidal wave beneath the ice.

    The Blue Envelope 1918

  • The native guide had passed beyond the next ice-pile.

    The Blue Envelope 1918

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