The ice floe was a definite danger to the small coastal town of the north. From LearnThat.org.
The fate of three men afloat on a floe is too horrible to think about. From Wordnik.com. [With Shackleton to the Antarctic] Reference
After one of these gales, walking on the floe was a work of much difficulty, in consequence of the irregular surface it presented to the foot. From Wordnik.com. [Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51] Reference
Small ice fragments from a floe which is breaking up. From Wordnik.com. [The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913] Reference
When ice is seen floating in small detached pieces and scattered masses, it is called "floe" ice, and men speak of getting among the floes. From Wordnik.com. [Fast in the Ice Adventures in the Polar Regions] Reference
The floe has been a good friend to us, but it is reaching the end of its journey, and it is liable at any time now to break up and fling us into the unplumbed sea.”. From Wordnik.com. [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference
It was a Presbyterian flood, and every man a floe. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
I chase your lazy whalers home from the Disko floe. From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
Hastily descending, the two friends ran at full speed to the floe. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
Meanwhile the floe was drifting, -- the one we started to write about. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages] Reference
Silence spread through the store like an ice floe, huge and impassable. From Wordnik.com. [Changing a Flat] Reference
As they turned to go, Regnar's eye caught sight of a floe at the foot of the berg. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
On the opposite side, above a small floe, they saw the prow of the advancing vessel. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
Six or eight miles away they saw the masts of a vessel deep in the heart of the floe. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
And on the next, the floe-ice poured in and packed the harbor like a box of sardines. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Climbing the highest point of the floe, La Salle looked down upon a strange spectacle. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
That renowned and hardy explorer proposed reaching the spot by floating on an ice floe. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
"First thing we know this old floe will split in two in a storm, and we shall have no house.". From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
Breakfast over, all decided to remove at once to the higher ice of the vast floe occupied by the seals. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
But a wind from the land was steadily urging the floe-field away, and at length the sea before us lay clear. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
I feel the hunger of the polar bears as acutely as if I were stranded myself on an ice floe drifting out to sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Pursuit of Unhappiness] Reference
The floe in question contained two caverns excavated by the sea, both of which were partially open toward the ship. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
We had been rudely jostled by an unseen ice floe while the eyes of the pilot had been occupied by the ones visible. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference
Then the heaving billows broke the vessel loose from the floe, separating the men on the ice from those on the vessel. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
"Can't we get ashore and off of this horrid floe, if we strike on the other shore?" asked Waring, a little dolorously. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
The story of this ice-floe journey of one thousand three hundred miles is one of the most thrilling in maritime annals. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The Greenland seal seems to enjoy seas filled with ice, spending part of the time in the water and part on the ice-floe. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
None of the seals seemed to have deserted the floe, but the ice was crowded with the young "calves" and the adult parents. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
These, when disturbed near the edge of the floe, slid noiselessly into the water, going down tail foremost into the depths. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
In truth, as had soon to learn, this twenty-mile strip of shore-ice was but the advance-guard of an immeasurable field or army of floe. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
The São Paulo samba squad X-9 danced to the drumbeat of global warming, topping its floats with giant sea turtles, whales and a polar bear on a shrinking ice floe. From Wordnik.com. [Carnival Goes Political] Reference
As they hurried across the last floe, the rain fell, and the wind blew heavily, dashing huge cakes against the windward side with a ceaseless crashing of broken ice. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
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