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He reached the island all right, and was pushing on from there to the opposite mainland, when he found that the ice was becoming rotten and soft -- what is called "sish" -- that is, pounded ice formed from big slabs which have been ground together by the action of the sea.

Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell 1899

Then the wind suddenly fell, and I noticed that I was travelling over loose "sish," which was like porridge and probably many feet deep.

Adrift on an Ice-Pan Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902

Then the wind dropped suddenly, and I noticed simultaneously that we were travelling over "sish" ice.

A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902

The ship-man beside Ames gave a little sish and sank to the ground.

Archive 2008-11-01 Dave Tackett 2008

The ship-man beside Ames gave a little sish and sank to the ground.

Cradle of the World Dave Tackett 2008

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I just sish i could have non him longer, so we could have developed a relationship, so he could have seen me grow into a man. i know that there is mutch that he could have taugh me, or us rather.

It's enough to make you believe in ghosts.... 2007

And gish! how they gushed away, the pennyfares, a whole school for scamper, with their sashes flying sish behind them, all the little pirlypettes!

Finnegans Wake 2006

There was the sish-rip of a knife being thrust through my boot, but the blade broke and I rushed past the prostrate form.

Lords of the North 1903

It was impossible to make any progress through the sish ice by swimming, so I lay there and thought all would soon be over, only wondering if any one would ever know how it happened.

Adrift on an Ice-Pan Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902