When they went to Norway, they wanted to take a cruise through some of the fiords. From LearnThat.org.
The fiord is the show place of the Eastern Arctic and defies description. From Wordnik.com. [The Eastern Arctic Patrol] Reference
The word fiord, sometimes spelled fjord, comes from Norway, where fiords are common. From Wordnik.com. Reference
See, the ice of the fiord is a turquoise, the dark pine forests are mere threads of brown; for us all abysses should be thus adorned. ". From Wordnik.com. [Seraphita] Reference
"fiord," -- a word which geographers of every nation have adopted into their respective languages. From Wordnik.com. [Seraphita] Reference
The yacht looked smaller than ever outside the quiet fiord. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
Those heights had as many hiding places as the fiord country. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
'I'm lying a little way down the fiord, you see,' said Davies. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
'Xtiania fiord is deep and the town is situated at the head of it. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir] Reference
'Let's get under way at once,' he said, 'and sail down the fiord.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
'Let's have lunch,' he pursued, as we resumed our way down the fiord. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
The fiord-like Bay of Ambon flows into the heart of the fragrant Clove. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
Deep snows covered hill, rock, and valley, and ice blockaded the fiord. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
They must locate some break nearer than the fiord, down which they had come. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
The coverlet served for sledge – apron, and the floor for an ice – bound fiord. From Wordnik.com. [Peer Gynt] Reference
To the right there are only a few single trees, between which the fiord is visible. From Wordnik.com. [Little Eyolf] Reference
So Olaf made no delay, but weighed anchor again and rowed east into the sunlit fiord. From Wordnik.com. [Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age] Reference
As the rays of the sun shot over the fiord, he sprang out of bed and ran to the window. From Wordnik.com. [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference
I have heard that there lives a great viking in Salten fiord who is skilled in sorcery. From Wordnik.com. [Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age] Reference
This ecoregion contains one of the most extensive mountain-fiord complexes in the world. From Wordnik.com. [British Columbia mainland coastal forests] Reference
Then he died; and Andras sailed in his boat away across the fiord and found the dog and boy. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange Fairy Book] Reference
The scene resembles a Norwegian fiord, translated into tropical terms of climate and vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
I can't tell you how fine it is in that upper fiord; big peaks and ice walls growing all around. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
Part of the passage of the fiord is very narrow among the small islands, and the water very deep. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir] Reference
Shann glanced with new interest at the green water surging in wavelets along the edge of the fiord. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
The following spring Andras happened to be driving his reindeer along a great fiord to the west of Vadso. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange Fairy Book] Reference
About twenty miles from Christiania the fiord narrows to two miles, and holds that breadth up to the city. From Wordnik.com. [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference
We have gained enough money for my mother to put away her iron, and take the little farmhouse by the fiord. From Wordnik.com. [Soap-Bubble Stories For Children] Reference
We seemed to be in the middle of the fiord, whose shores looked distant and steep in the gathering darkness. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
And at last she took refuge on a certain islet in the middle of Rand's fiord, and lay hidden there for many days. From Wordnik.com. [Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age] Reference
At the mouth of Salten fiord he encountered foul weather, and was forced to lie there storm stayed for many days. From Wordnik.com. [Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age] Reference
Was it meant to fiord some of the dialogue and some of the progress that has been made with North Korean officials?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2002] Reference
'Oh! we'll anchor anywhere here, we're just at the mouth of the fiord; I'll tow her inshore if you'll steer in that direction.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
Now, when this little battle was over, and Erland's ships had been captured, Olaf Triggvison rowed yet farther into the fiord to. From Wordnik.com. [Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age] Reference
In the Southern part of the LME, there is higher productivity in the fiord marine ecosystems, but they are in need of protection. From Wordnik.com. [New Zealand Shelf large marine ecosystem] Reference
Wrath, to the Goa-fiord or Hoanfiord, which we know as Loch Erriboll, reaching it on Sunday, October 28th, 1263, in a profound calm. From Wordnik.com. [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference
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