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Once, when I came to the time when I led my companion over the ice-ridge, I saw a shudder pass through her.
The Lady of the Ice A Novel James De Mille
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Do you remember how you clung to me as we crossed the ice-ridge, while the waves were surging behind us, and the great ice-heaps came crashing down?
The Lady of the Ice A Novel James De Mille
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Then, through all this, I rushed forward, scrambling over the ice-ridge, reaching the opposite plain to hurry forward to the shore.
The Lady of the Ice A Novel James De Mille
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Once more I wandered over the crumbling ice; once more I floundered through the deep pools of water; once more I halted in front of that perilous ice-ridge, with my back to the driving storm and my eyes searching anxiously for a way of progress.
The Lady of the Ice A Novel James De Mille
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Thus we soon approached that long ice-ridge which I have so frequently mentioned.
The Lady of the Ice A Novel James De Mille
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My first act was to push the sleigh with its occupant toward the ice-ridge in the centre of the river.
The Lady of the Ice A Novel James De Mille
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Then followed that journey over the ice, the passage of the ice-ridge, the long, interminable march, the fainting lady, the broad channel near the shore, the-white gleam of the ice-cone at Montmorency, my wild leap, and my mad dash up the bank to the Frenchman's house.
The Lady of the Ice A Novel James De Mille
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She knew that Murray was apt to lose himself in his dreams; perhaps some visionary mood had blinded him to the menace of that mounting ice-ridge it front of the glacier, or had he madly chosen to stand or fall with this structure that meant so much to him?
The Iron Trail Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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With brutish stolidness I plodded ever on, almost like a walking machine, sometimes nodding in sleep while I helped the dogs, or manouvred the sledge over an ice-ridge, pushing or pulling.
The Purple Cloud 1906
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Sometimes our frail bamboo-cane kayaks, lying across the sledges, would crash perilously against an ice-ridge -- and they were our one hope of reaching land.
The Purple Cloud 1906
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