Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
ice-foot .
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Examples
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With the increasing motion the ice-wall broke in a hundred places, and from up and down the shore came the rending and crashing of uprooted trees.
CHAPTER 24 2010
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Ten minutes later they climbed the ice-wall, and on and up the bank, which was partly a hillside, to where the signal of distress still fluttered.
CHAPTER 25 2010
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But with a groan and a crash, the ice-wall bulged in.
CHAPTER 24 2010
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The panorama from the top of the ice-wall is always grand, and it can be beautiful as well.
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To-day a heavy, black sky hung above a still blacker sea, and the ice-wall, which shines in the light with a dazzling white purity, looked more like an old white-washed wall than anything else.
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The panorama from the top of the ice-wall is always grand, and it can be beautiful as well.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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To-day a heavy, black sky hung above a still blacker sea, and the ice-wall, which shines in the light with a dazzling white purity, looked more like an old white-washed wall than anything else.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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She stood on the peaks above me; her figure presented in strong relief against the dead, neutral tint of the ice-wall behind her.
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They were glad in an hour to get into their furs, and there remained shivering in the damp, cold fog, while the streams of water which had poured down the ice-wall congealed again into the hardest of crystal.
On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake Roy Rockwood
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The ice-wall seemed to crack and stagger from base to summit.
On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake Roy Rockwood
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