Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 12 | 203 | More than View more quotes about once">once we heard gigantic crashes as hundreds of feet or more of ice broke away from the glacial edge and tumbled roaring into the sea. |
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Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 12 | 200 | * * * * It took ten days to cross Ax Glacier. |
| 12 | 201 | There are many glacial lines among the rocks and mountains of the north, but Ax Glacier is easily the broadest and most famous. |
| 12 | 202 | These glaciers, like frozen rivers or lakes of ice, or emptying seas, depend to the shores of Thassa, seeking her, flowing some few feet a year, imperceptibly like stone, to her chill waters. |
| 12 | 203 | More than once we heard gigantic crashes as hundreds of feet or more of ice broke away from the glacial edge and tumbled roaring into the sea. |
| 12 | 204 | It is thus, of course, that icebergs are formed. |
| 12 | 205 | These great pieces and mountains of ice, shattering from the brinks of Ax Glacier and her smaller sisters, in time, drifting, carried by currents, would reach the northern sea, that eastward-reaching extension of Thassa rimming the polar basin. |
| 12 | 206 | It was in that northern, or polar, sea that there was said to exist, if it were not myth or invention, the "mountain that did not move," that iceberg which, in defiance of tide, wind, and current, stood immobilely fixed. |
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* * * * It took ten days to cross Ax Glacier.
There are many glacial lines among the rocks and mountains of the north, but Ax Glacier is easily the broadest and most famous.
These glaciers, like frozen rivers or lakes of ice, or emptying seas, depend to the shores of Thassa, seeking her, flowing some few feet a year, imperceptibly like stone, to her chill waters.
More than once we heard gigantic crashes as hundreds of feet or more of ice broke away from the glacial edge and tumbled roaring into the sea.
It is thus, of course, that icebergs are formed.
These great pieces and mountains of ice, shattering from the brinks of Ax Glacier and her smaller sisters, in time, drifting, carried by currents, would reach the northern sea, that eastward-reaching extension of Thassa rimming the polar basin.
It was in that northern, or polar, sea that there was said to exist, if it were not myth or invention, the "mountain that did not move," that iceberg which, in defiance of tide, wind, and current, stood immobilely fixed.
- (Beasts of Gor)