The looser ice drifting past this berg was crushed, and piled up against its sides to a height of fifty feet.
This berg suddenly, without warning, broke up: "with one great cracke it burst into foure hundred pieces at the least.
The Terror was almost capsized by a small submerged berg which had been released by the breaking up of the floe.
During the winter the men had to fetch ice from a berg about half a mile distant from the ship in order to melt it for fresh water.
The starboard quarter boat was badly smashed against the corner of a big berg piece, and the starboard corner of the forward deck house was almost ripped from the decking.
Still another day, and the Roosevelt was in the same position, with the ice crowding against her; but at the crest of the high tide the grounded floe-berg to which we were attached by cable went adrift, and we all hurried on deck.
About ten o'clock the berg fragment to which we were attached drifted loose under the pressure of the furious wind and the rising tide.
Bartlett and I were determined to get the ship beyond the floe-berg barrier and into the shallow water of the ice-foot.
This excitement was no sooner over than a great berg that was passing near us split in two of its own accord, a cube some twenty-five or thirty feet in diameter dropping toward the ship, and missing our quarter by only a foot or two.
As soon as the pressure was relaxed and the ship regained an even keel, we discovered that the cable which had been attached to the floe-berg at the stern had become entangled with the propeller.
With every pulse of the tide the pressure and the motion continued, and in less than an hour from the time I had come on deck, a great floe-berg was jammed against the side of the Roosevelt from amidships to the stern.
As an ungentle reminder of what was ahead of us, though going at half speed because of the fog, we struck a small berg a little way out from the harbor.
The berg brought up against another one just aft of us, and the Roosevelt slipped from between the two like a greased pig.
One of ourberg pieces was carried away by the flood tide, and we were obliged to shift our position to the inner side of the other one; but there were other grounded bergs outside us to take the impact of the larger floes.
Arouse thee, bold wind," shouted Gisli "and drive "Floe and Berg out to sea as bees from a hive.
I whirled my sword Where the pale berg roar'd, I took the ship by the throat!
The Grand Duke of Berg saw the advantage which this dispute might give to Napoleon; and he begged the Emperor to come immediately to Madrid for the settlement of matters on which he alone could decide.
Thanks to the complaisance of their Kings, the Grand Duchy of Berg and Cleves was granted to Murat, while the energetic and trusty Berthier was rewarded with the Principality of Neufchâtel and a truly princely fortune.
A glance at Bantom Bergand Typhon shewed them to be touched by the first sunbeams.
Not that he was afraid,--of what living creature in those days was a Rider of the Berg ever afraid?
Underneath there was a current flowing southward; and every berg was many times larger under water than it was above, as you can see for yourself by dropping a piece of ice into a waterpail and measuring the difference.
By-and-by that berg will drift down as far as Newfoundland, where it will meet the warm water of the Gulf Stream as it hurries northward.
The wind was blowing south, and each berg stood there like a great white sail.
If he meant to cross the Suliman Berg he has crossed it, unless some accident overtook him, and we must look for him on the other side.
Then came a sound of thunder as the masses of ice, dislodged from the berg by the collision, toppled and slid from her fore-decks.
Of the berg that had almost sent her to the bottom, there was no sign, although the fog had lifted quite a little.
The ship was usually conned by Pennell and myself from the crow's-nest, and I took the ship very near one berg for Ponting to cinematograph it.
The pools of water between the floes caught the reflection, the sea was perfectly still and every berg and ice-floe caught something of the delicate colour.
Directly one realised which berg it was a new course would be shaped, say to the end of the Barne Glacier; the cliffs of this reached, one proceeded homeward a league to the hut.
We set all sail, and with this help the ship slowly carried the pack round, pivoting on the berg until, as the pressure relieved, she slid out into the open water close to the berg.
This brought us dead to windward of and close to a large bergwith the wind steadily increasing.
I imagine that when the sea freezes very solid it carries bergs with it, but obviously the enormous mass of a berg would need a great deal of stopping.
One imagines that such a berg has come from a region of ice disturbance such as King Edward's Land.
It appears that Clissold was acting as Ponting's 'model' and that the two had been climbing about the berg to get pictures.
We passed one small berg on the starboard hand with a group of Antarctic petrels on one side and a group of snow petrels on the other.
Went round the outer berg in the afternoon; it was all I could do to keep up with 'Snatcher' on the homeward round--speaking well for his walking powers.
About five a telephone message from Nelson's igloo reported that Clissold had fallen from a berg and hurt his back.
I imagine the bergmust have been calved from a region of hard pressure ridges.
A great deal of ice has fallen from the irregular ones, showing that a great deal of weathering of bergs goes on during the winter and hence that the life of a bergis very limited, even if it remains in the high latitudes.
The wound proved of little importance, and, with the assistance of crutches, De Berg was soon able to get out.
Berg and myself, although it would have been no unnatural occurrence between rivals of equal rank, had never occurred to me.
As I had feared, the strange duel between Victor de Bergand a sergeant of his regiment was already the talk of the town.
Berg may find means of securing the silence of the witnesses.
He spoke in broken sentences, and with visible effort, for the surgeon was all the while poking and probing at the leg in a most uncomfortable manner, and De Berg was pale from pain and loss of blood.
Berg was under close arrest, and the police were diligently seeking his antagonist.
Few courts-martial ever excited a stronger interest in the French military world than those held upon Lieutenant Victor de Bergand the maréchal des logis Francis Oakley.
Colonel de Bellechasse used all the interest he could command; Monsieur de Berg set his friends to work; and I, on my part, did everything in my power to obtain mercy for the unfortunate young man.
Berg is a man of strict honour, and you may depend on your name and share in the affair remaining undivulged.
Of course Frau Berg and her boarders are to the Junker dreadful beyond words.
You run to Switzerland, without telling Frau Berg or a soul where you are going," he said.
Rules," said Frau Berg briefly, when I asked if it wasn't a little early to leave me in the dark.
Frau Berg reiterates that the world needs blood-letting before there can be any real calm again, but it isn't German blood she wants to let.
The public is that shouting, perspiring mob out there watching the soldiers, and Frau Berg and her boarders are the public, and so are the soldiers themselves.
He wasted no words on the Koseritzes, but was anxious lest Frau Berg mightn't wish to take me in now.
The Bergatmosphere was more like the one in the streets.
I'm not allowed to play on Sundays, because practising is forbidden on that day, and, as Frau Berg said, how is she to know if I am practising or playing?
With the view of compelling Frederick Henry to follow him, Berg now marched into the heart of the United Provinces, devastating as he went with fire and sword, took Amersfoort and threatened Amsterdam.
Fortunately the other side were in no better case financially, while the death of Spinola and the withdrawal of the Count de Berg from the Spanish service deprived them of their only two competent generals.
The Grand Duke of Bergdemanded the sword of Francis I.
The Emperor constantly recommended the Grand Duke of Berg to act with the utmost caution.
When she rammed the mountainous mass of ice the berg was on the point of toppling over.
Released of the retarding mass, the main portion of the berg toppled over, fortunately away from the ship, otherwise the huge vessel would have been literally buried beneath a mountain of steel-like ice.
Cervillo contrived to clear the danger, only to be confronted by another; for so close was the Independencia to the berg that one tremendous mass of ice fell within a hundred yards of her starboard side.
Her still revolving propellers made her gather way, but her course carried her clear of the berg she had previously rammed, and, unguided, she tore once more through the fog.
Humanly speaking, surely the Imperial mind will be effectual in the Julich and Berg matter.
The increasing motion of the berg on which they stood did not serve to reassure them, and the cold they had, from their forced inactivity, to endure, would have damped the boldest spirits.
Of course it was not likely that boy Rory was going to be far away when any fun was going on, so that is why he happened to be on top of this identical berg when the blowing-up took place.
He was trudging on after the seals with rifle at full cock, for he expected a shot almost immediately, when, as he was about to leap, the snowy edge of the berg gave way, and down he went.
The men on the ice are leaping madly from berg to berg and clubbing old seals: error Number 3, for unless old seals get positively frozen out of the water by the pieces becoming fast together, they will not wait to be clubbed.
The great berg to which they had been anchored had parted company with the floe, and was evidently bent on going to sea along with the Arrandoon.
Mind, the ship is in the nips, and a berg might go through her at any moment.
Then the crew realized that there was a possible danger of perishing in the pack, since at any time their immense floe-berg might break into countless pieces in the very midst of the polar cold and the winter darkness.
Huge pieces of their own berg now broke off, due to the action of the sea and to collision with the crowding pack.
They stood immovable as the lofty berg loomed far above their heads, close on them, and after hanging a ghastly object over their tiny floe for a moment vanished in the mist while their hearts were yet in their mouths.
Although sadly reduced in size by the action of the grinding pack and by the ploughing icebergs, the flat-topped floe-berg was still enormous.
An adjoining floe-berg of great size and thickness had split into countless pieces, and where a moment before had been a solid ice surface was a high sea tossing broken ice-masses.
We must hustle, for Bergmay yet get on our trail, even if he has got the wrong route," and he laughed again.
I've no objection to showing you the one Mr. Berg saw," and again he chuckled.
I sensed what Mr. Berg was after, the minute he began to talk to me.
Maybe it's some one hired byBerg to follow us and trace our movements," suggested Tom.
Five minutes later the Advance sank from sight, the last glimpse Tom had of Berg and his men being a sight of them standing on the deck of their floating boat, gazing in the direction of their successful rival.
Mr. Berg overheard me, and introduced himself as agent for a shipbuilding concern.
Chapter Five Mr. Berg is Suspicious Not for long did the young inventor endeavor to break his way out of the water-ballast tank by striking the heavy sides of it.
The aged inventor was not a little alarmed at what his son related, but he agreed with Mr. Damon, whom he heartily welcomed, that little was to be apprehended from Berg and his employers.
Getting the blueprints, and asking Mr. Berg to sit down on the porch, Tom delivered the message.
It was about five hundred miles out of the way, and I rather guess if Mr. Berg and his friends go there for treasure they'll find considerable depth of water and quite a lonesome spot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "berg" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
