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  • Having damaged his wrist in a fall at Windsor, Moore had initially hoped to be back in time for the Ebor meeting at York last week, but his recovery proved slower than expected and he tried to speed things along by using kriotherapy, which involves spending time in an ice-chamber.

    Ryan Moore returns to race-riding at Brighton tomorrow 2010

  • There was no connection with an ice-chamber, and there were none of the hooks and shelves which would make it complete for its purpose.

    The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure Bannister Merwin

  • Even the places where, in a practical refrigerator, connection would be made with the ice-chamber, were blocked up; for that matter, they were on that side of the chamber which was built close into the corner of the office.

    The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure Bannister Merwin

  • The snow still fell heavily, but although the wind blew very hard, few drifts were formed, owing to the wet and heavy nature of the large, soft flakes, although at times a flurry of sharp, stinging hail rattled against the boats and the roof of the ice-chamber.

    Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

  • Then Teddy turned and walked out of the great ice-chamber and down the hall, followed in silence by the dwarfs.

    The Counterpane Fairy Katharine Pyle 1900

  • After taking these records of normal response, I placed the specimens in an ice-chamber, temperature 0° C., for twenty-four hours, and afterwards took their records once more at the ordinary temperature of the room.

    Response in the Living and Non-Living Jagadis Chandra Bose 1897

  • This ice-chamber consists of a grotto from 30 to 40 fathoms long, decked with ice-crystals, pillars of ice, and cascades of the same material, the floor being composed of ice as smooth as glass.

    Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland 1881

  • I walked down the shaft and into the ice-chamber to see what had been done since my last visit.

    My Terminal Moraine 1892 Frank Richard Stockton 1868

  • a reason for this lack of energy which was more chilling than the glistening walls around me: Why should they suppose that I was in the ice-chamber?

    My Terminal Moraine 1892 Frank Richard Stockton 1868

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