ice-bed

Updated: May 4, 2025

Some of the crew had rattling in the throat. On that day, the sixth of our imprisonment, Captain Nemo, finding the pickaxes work too slowly, resolved to crush the ice-bed that still separated us from the liquid sheet. This man's coolness and energy never forsook him. He subdued his physical pains by moral force.

Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

It was not in any hull put together by human hands to resist the pounding of those seas. The weight of the mighty ocean along whose breast they raced was in them, and though the wind was no more than a brisk gale, each billow by its stature showed itself the child of a giantess. The ice-bed was like a whirlpool with the leap and flash and play of the froth upon it.

William Clark Russell - The Frozen Pirate

And the other causes mentioned all had their influences in breaking up the peaks and ridges and depositing great jagged bowlders of rock in the slowly-moving glaciers. Little by little these masses of rock worked their way down lower into the ice-bed.

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For, spurred by vanity, we must be returning the way we had come, to show our confident experience of glaciers. "All went well. Actually we had passed over near two-thirds of the ice-bed, when a touch on my arm stayed me, and ma mie looked into my eyes, very comical and insolent. "'Little cabbage, she said; 'will you not put your new knowledge to account? "'But how, my soul?

Bernard Edward Joseph Capes - At a Winter's Fire

By his orders the vessel was lightened, that is to say, raised from the ice-bed by a change of specific gravity. When it floated they towed it so as to bring it above the immense trench made on the level of the water-line. Then, filling his reservoirs of water, he descended and shut himself up in the hole. Just then all the crew came on board, and the double door of communication was shut.

Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea