ice-surrounded

Updated: May 5, 2025

The same wild fowl which hatch their young among the ice-surrounded cliffs of Northern Greenland are found sporting in the lakes of Central America; while some of the smallest of the feathered tribes, the gem-like humming-birds, have been seen flitting through the damp mists of Tierra del Fuego, sipping the sweets of Alpine flowers high up amid lofty peaks of the Andes, and appearing on the hill-sides in sight of Lake Winnipeg, on the north of Rupert's Land.

William Henry Giles Kingston - The Western World: Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North: and South America

We looked about aboard and around us, on either side where the wreck of the foremast was still hanging on to the channels, but no voice replied not a glimpse of them could be seen. We four were left alone on that stormy ice-surrounded sea, with a shattered, almost unmanageable ship. We did not fear. Our captain was a host in himself.

William Henry Giles Kingston - Will Weatherhelm: The Yarn of an Old Sailor

Your woman of thirty of this sort is a Hecla ever in eruption, but becoming sometimes, like Hecla, in the ages, ice-surrounded. She has her trials, this woman, but her trials never kill her. The rending of the earth, earthy, is never fatal. She recovers. With her, good digestion ever waits on appetite, though an occasional appetite be faulty.

Stanley Waterloo - A Man and a Woman

The Greely expedition also succeeded in showing that Greenland was not so much ice-capped as ice-surrounded.

Joseph Jacobs - The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known