Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 12 | 206 | It was in that View more quotes about northern">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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Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 12 | 207 | Sometimes we could see, from where we stood, the sea, with these great pieces of ice within it. |
| 12 | 208 | Some of these pieces of ice reared more than a thousand feet into the air. |
| 12 | 209 | Sometimes they are even miles long. |
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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.
Sometimes we could see, from where we stood, the sea, with these great pieces of ice within it.
Some of these pieces of ice reared more than a thousand feet into the air.
Sometimes they are even miles long.
- (Beasts of Gor)