ice-bed

By his orders the vessel was lightened, that is to say, raised from the ice-bed by a change of specific gravity.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

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.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

[Page 189] crack was slowly widening; presently there came the gurgle of water as it was sucked into our opening ice-bed, and in another minute there was a creaking aft and our stern rose with a jump as the keel was freed from the ice which had held it down.

The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition Charles Turley 1904

Little by little these masses of rock worked their way down lower into the ice-bed.

The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter George Wharton James 1890

(Vt.), is described, which is ordinarily known in the neighbourhood as the ice-bed.

Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland 1881

The ice-bed was like a whirlpool with the leap and flash and play of the froth upon it.

The Frozen Pirate 1877

By his orders the vessel was lightened, that is to say, raised from the ice-bed by a change of specific gravity.

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866

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.

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866

Greenland was so named because Erik the Red wanted to put a positive spin on the place to attract settlers (Greenland has been a large ice-bed since long before the time of Erik the Red).

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