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  • Others had hands so thickly swathed that they looked like the huge paws of polar-bears.

    Combed Out Frederick Augustus Voigt 1924

  • Or else, Loerke's dream of fear, the world went cold, and snow fell everywhere, and only white creatures, polar-bears, white foxes, and men like awful white snow-birds, persisted in ice cruelty.

    Women in Love 1907

  • Just before sundown the giant returned from Alaska, bringing several fat polar-bears in his bag; and scarcely had he set foot within the house before he inquired after his guest, the Prince.

    The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People 1887

  • Half-melted snow, partly covered with moss, sharp stones, and skeletons of walruses and polar-bears, lie all about, their gigantic limbs in a state of green decay.

    Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen 1840

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. green/blog; featured-posts = 1; green = 1; nickname = trip-van-noppen; entry_id = 206041; alaska = 1; arctic = 1; climate-change = 1; environment = 1; global-warming = 1; ken-salazar = 1; oil-drilling = 1; polar-bears = 1; shell-oil = 1",

    Trip Van Noppen: An Arctic Agenda for Secretary Salazar 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. green/blog; entertainment = 1; green = 1; nickname = jake-brewer; entry_id = 182523; @yentertainment = 1; @yscitech = 1; al-gore = 1; an-inconvenient-truth = 1; disney = 1; disney-natures-earth = 1; earth-movie = 1; elephants = 1; film = 1; polar-bears = 1; whales = 1",

    Jake Brewer: The Earth (Movie) Will Blow Your Mind 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. green/blog; green = 1; nickname = carl-pope; entry_id = 332419; climate-bill = 1; climate-change = 1; epa = 1; james-inhofe = 1; john-kerry = 1; kerry-boxer = 1; polar-bears = 1; waxman-markey = 1",

    Carl Pope: Walking Down the Avenue 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. green/blog; featured-posts = 1; green = 1; nickname = les-leopold; entry_id = 204098; @ypolitics = 1; @yworld = 1; china = 1; financial-crisis = 1; free-trade = 1; global-warming = 1; paul-krugman = 1; polar-bears = 1; protectionism = 1; unemployment = 1; united-steelworkers = 1",

    Les Leopold: Fear and Looting in America: Krugman Takes on Globalization? 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. politics/blog; green = 1; politics = 1; nickname = michael-markarian; entry_id = 223438; @ypolitics = 1; animals = 1; climate-change = 1; don-young = 1; global-warming = 1; polar-bears = 1; safari-club = 1; trophy-hunting = 1",

    Michael Markarian: Whitewashing the Polar Bear Trophy Imports 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. green/blog; featured-posts = 1; green = 1; nickname = frances-beinecke; entry_id = 202464; arctic = 1; arctic-ice-melt = 1; global-warming = 1; polar-bears = 1; polar-bears-endangered = 1",

    Frances Beinecke: Tales from the Arctic and Obama's Polar Bear Decision 2009

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