On the other hand, if I could take some of these deer out upon the ice floe to meet Joe and the explorers, it would be a great boon to them.
With good luck, did not the ice floe begin to shift, they might almost hope to meet the men they sought at the evening of the next day and to relieve them of their suffering from hunger.
In the meantime Joe Marion and Jennings were making their way over the treacherous ice floe toward the party of explorers who were battling for their lives against cold, hunger and ever perilous floes.
The wind was driving the hat shoreward, and I ran round the border of the floe to be ready against its arrival.
Why had Northmour landed with his guests at dead of night, in half a gale of wind, and with the floe scarce covered?
If you were, Graden Floe would soon divorce you; four minutes and a half, Cassilis.
No, but the floe has struck a different current and we are drifting back.
This checked the enthusiasm and the boys all fell to anxiously watching the course theirfloe was likely to pursue.
Just as the nose of their boat scraped the floe the great "killer" charged.
Well, if it's on the floe it will have to stay there," remarked Frank.
Faster and faster the floe drifted, and they were now almost out of sight of the ships.
The floe drifted onward, with the vessels' forms every moment growing larger to the boys' view.
Frank had just time to spring onto the floe and drag Harry after him when the monster's head rammed the boat, splitting it to kindling wood with a terrible crackling sound.
About midday a smallfloe of ice was seen from the masthead off the larboard bow, and upon it there appeared to be some large animal.
We now saw several large ice islands, and a floe of field ice, not, however, of any great extent.
As desperate diseases are sometimes combated with desperate remedies, so in her desperate condition the hazardous and almost hopeless expedient of berthing her alongside one of the edges of the floe might have been attempted.
The lines of only one boat, therefore, remained fast to the fish, and this with six or eight lines out, was dragged forward into the shattered floe with astonishing force.
While we scoured the sea around the broken floe with the ship, and while the ice was attempted in vain by the boats, the whale continued to press forward in an easterly direction towards the sea.
On reaching the locality, Swinton found that a large ice-floe had come down from the Arctic regions, and stranded on the shore of the island.
Teddy rushed back to the professor's home to report to him the full verification of his theories, and it was there and then that the first authentic explanation of the ice floe was given to the world.
We would see where the floe began, when the waves dropped back from it.
Within three hours the Narrows were closed, and the ice floewas creeping up toward New York.
Amatikita dived in through the entrance of the hut one day and told me that the ice-floe was beginning to break.
The floe was still sound where it joined the shore, but two seaward lanes of blue water showed between the ice, and in one of them a whale was spouting pale gray mist.
In the clutch of the churning waters the floe turned slowly like an immense wheel as it drifted in the current.
As if they realized that they were being parted from the firm land, the dogs grouped at the edge of the floe and sent their dismal howls across the raging swirl, only to be drowned by the din of the crashing icebergs.
On a section of the floeseveral acres in extent their little camp lay, at the very brink of a gash in the ice-field which had cut them off from the land over which they had come.
Caught in a swift current and urged by the furious wind, the broken-up floe was drifting, faster and faster--back to the south!
We did our best to make up for the previous day's delay, and when we finally camped on a heavy old floe we had made a good twenty miles.
While we were resting there, some of the men observed a black object far out on the great ice floe to which we were attached, and Dr.
We retired to still another position, and secured the vessel and finally the threatening floe passed onwards to the south.
Our camp that night was on a large old floein the lee of a large hummock of ice and snow.
The crew escaped to an ice floe on which they drifted in the darkness of an arctic winter for 1300 miles along the coast of Greenland to Frederiksthaal.
After two months of drifting, part of the crew, with some Eskimo men and women, alarmed by the groaning and crashing of the ice during a furious autumn storm, camped on an ice floe which shortly afterwards separated from the ship.
Though there is always a possibility that a lead may open directly across a floe as large as this one, we could not waste our sleeping hours in sitting up to watch for it.
The two edges being fairly even, the raft lay alongside us as a boat lies against a wharf, and we had no trouble in getting Bartlett's men and sledges across and onto the floe with us.
The surface of the ice-floe was going blue, the delta of the river was quite bare, and the patches of bare ground ashore were growing larger almost hourly.
Using the boat hooks as vaulting poles, they leaped from one floe to another, when the leads were not too wide.
Our course was nearly, as the crow flies, due north, across floe after floe, pressure ridge after pressure ridge, headed straight for some hummock or pinnacle of ice which I had lined in with my compass.
I routed Henson and his men out of their igloo, gave orders to everybody to pack and hitch up immediately, and, while this was being done, leveled a path across the crack to the big floe at the west of us.
It was a piece of an ice-floe melted down to a fragment, but still big enough to sink a ship, and floating lower than any raft, right in our way, as if ambushed among the waves with murderous intent.
I was heard aft, and we managed to clear the sunken floe which had come all the way from the Southern ice-cap to have a try at our unsuspecting lives.
The incessant crash and jar of these cakes almost drowned the ripping sound of sheets of pack-ice driven bodily under the floe as cards are hastily pushed under a tablecloth.
The Thing moved off slowly and clumsily across the ridges, heading always toward the westward and the land, and they followed, while the growling thunder at the edge of the floe rolled nearer and nearer.
That showed that the floe was being jammed home against the iron cliffs of Bylot's Island, the land to the southward behind them.
The edge of the floe off which the seal were used to fish in winter lay perhaps twenty miles beyond this barrier, and out of reach of the Tununirmiut.
They pounded in solemnly, the waves breaking white round them, and advanced on the floe like an old-time fleet under full sail.
If the floe broke up there would be no more waiting and suffering.
In addition to the floe and the pack-ice, the gale and the currents were bringing down true bergs, sailing mountains of ice, snapped off from the Greenland side of the water or the north shore of Melville Bay.
The ice, excepting the floe to which the ship is fast, is several feet thick.
He jumped from floe to floe and at last climbed up the face of the Barrier from a piece of ice which swung round in the tideway and just touched the ice cliff at the right moment.
For a whole day these two were afloat on a floe about 150 ft.
We saw a small seal on a floe but were unable to reach him.
They told us that Bowers and Cherry-Garrard were adrift on an ice floe and the remainder of the party had gone to the rescue along the Barrier edge.
A very funny occurrence was witnessed in the evening when the wash of the ship turned a floe over under water and on its floating back a fish was left stranded.
It was nobody's fault, as Simpson and Campbell both tested thefloe first and found it quite thick and apparently good.
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.
You will remember that as the summer advances certain places in the solid floe become dangerously weak.
Days came when we could get out on thefloe and exercise on ski, and Gran zealously looked to all our requirements in this direction.
Whilst Crean was clambering over bits of ice and jumping by means of connecting pieces from one bigfloe to another, his progress was watched by Bowers through the telescope of a theodolite.
Once there, a boat could have been launched and the floeparty rescued.
After a four-hour struggle they cleared the icebound shore and made the open sea, which was not open but filled with a greatfloe of polar ice.
A day or so later they spied from the fire-house tower vessels that seemed to be jammed in a polar ice floe which a north wind crowded into the throat of the White Sea.
The doomed ship now lay between the main or fixed frozen shore ice and the immense floe which was impelled by the north wind acting on its whole irregular surface.
The first piece of news that reached us in the spring was that the Sir Donald had been found frozen in the floe ice far out on the Atlantic.
He had probably crossed over on a solid floe from the mainland.
In this respect we had a decided advantage over our consort, the "Discovery;" for her space on board being somewhat limited, the building of an ice theatre on the floe became necessary.
May and Egerton got their sledges under sail on an extensive floe in Robeson Channel, when they crossed over to the Greenland side; but as a rule the ice we met with was far too rough to make the use of sails practicable.
Immediately divine service had been performed the colours were hoisted, and amidst the cheers of "all hands," who had assembled on the floe to bid the travellers God speed, H.
This released a large floeto which we were secured, and with which we drifted down rapidly towards another large berg that remained aground.
It was therefore decided that two boats,[5] capable of conveying the whole party from one floe to another, should form part of the equipment of the northern division.
At eight o'clock, the fog lifting a little, we succeeded in extricating ourselves from our difficulties, and crossing a large heavy floe got on to a lead of young ice which gave us good travelling.
During one of these the "Discovery" was blown away from her anchors, and it was with no little difficulty that she was again secured to the floe in safety.
A walk was constructed along the floe near the ship, for a distance of half a mile, marked at every two or three yards by small heaps of empty preserved meat tins, placed there by our industrious doctor.
The Eskimo dogs, being turned out on the floe and tied to one of our anchor lines, made night hideous by their dreary and lamentable wailing.
The floe to which we were secured was kept stationary by a couple of grounded icebergs that effectually resisted all its efforts to extricate itself.
The "Discovery" was at first in the most critical position, but a slight swerving of the floe relieved her from any immediate danger, whilst the same movement of the ice intensified our own.
With his mother he was trapped on a floe when the ice-jam broke.
The floe was passing beyond the bridge and there was just time for him to knot the rope around himself.
Now and then, with a startling report, the big floe on which rested the auto ice boat containing the girls would be lessened by a great chunk, that would break off, and go floating away.
This delay, with the constantly-decreasing size of the floe meant danger for two of them.
Then, indeed, the floecontaining the ice boat did move toward shore more quickly.
Now, as the big floe was hauled cross-ways to the current, other cakes collided with it, breaking off large chunks.
As long as the big floe had gone down with the current it had not been struck hard by other chunks of ice, since all were moving at the same rate of speed.
Slowly the ice-floe began to approach the shore, shoving the lesser cakes aside.
With two short, iron shod and pointed poles he shoved his boat around and off thefloe where he had halted.
I got ter see Bill and call on Floe and take me first lesson from Mrs. Price and go ter Morton's house, all dis mornin'.
Jimmie tookFloe by the hand and pulled her away from the ring that Dave had formed by crowding the people back.
One of you can sleep with Floe and the other two can sleep in this bed downstairs.
Floe is not very strong, Jimmie, and I hardly think she would care to sing in the open air.
The dirty thief says that Floe is wrong and that I'm just playin' this here religious dodge just to get Floe.
Is that nice house bad, an' what's Floe doin' dere if it is?
When Floearose to sing, by request, the same song of the afternoon, Gene straightened up, and before she was half through the song he was standing on tiptoe.
Before she could go on with her talk, Morton arose and said, "Floe and Gene will sing.
When Floe and Gene walked up the aisle together, several people from Bucktown saw them.
You'll git well quicker and she says she wants ter take care of yer, and yer can live dere all der time if yer wants ter, and be Floe Morton.
I'm not stuck on Floe and no dog like Fagin can kick her down while I live.
Next day a sea struck the floe on which they were camped and washed away the tent, skins, and most of the bed-clothing.
There was now a small canal on the port side, and into this De Long had a heavy floe hauled so as to receive the pressure in the event of the ice closing.
On the 24th, the floe in which the Jeannette had been fixed was split, and the ship was once more afloat, but in a most dangerous position.
Thinking that this might be merely a local circumstance, resulting from some peculiarity of the current, we doubled back upon the old floe and made another trial farther to the eastward.
Soon after this seal was captured a storm came on, and it was feared that thefloe would break up: the noise of the ice was like that of artillery.
He believed that they must have drifted on a floe right across the Polar Sea.
The floe was of level ice, and the walking excellent.
Cape Buttress overlapped it, but inside and above the cape could be seen either a hummocky floe or a mer de glace; it looked like a floe, but its skyline had a perceptible curve in it—a haze hung over this part.
On the 1st April it was found necessary to abandon the floe and take to the boat.
Next day a close pack was met, and the Polaris was fastened to a large floe and allowed to drift slowly down the channel.
They hoped the floe would drift in to the fast ice, but after a long delay, Jens decided to try and reach it in his kayak.
The floe was now only 150 feet in diameter, but during the night the masses of ice became closely packed again.
When they awoke on the morning of the 20th June, they found they were afloat on a floe about 60 yards in diameter.
Next day, after their separation from the Polaris, the floeon which they were was found to be near Littleton Island.
After this, the floe drifted away from land towards the west coast, then across to the neighbourhood of Northumberland Island, and finally southwards to the east of the Carey Islands.
Big blocks of ice had been tossed on to the floe surface.
Worsley and James, working on the floe with a Kew magnetometer, found the variation to be six degrees west.
Hands on floe on port quarter clearing wires; stern in three fathoms; hauled wires tight, bringing stern more to eastward and in four fathoms; hove in about one fathom of starboard cable, which had dragged during recent pressure.
Occasionally the yards were backed or an ice-anchor put into a floe to help her out of difficult places, but much of the time she steered herself.
The plans for abandoning the ship in case of emergency had been made well in advance, and men and dogs descended to the floe and made their way to the comparative safety of an unbroken portion of the floe without a hitch.
The sunshine glittered on newly riven ice-surfaces as the masses of shattered floe rose and fell away from the line of pressure.
The weather was clear, and some enthusiastic football-players had a game on the floe until, about midnight, Worsley dropped through a hole in rotten ice while retrieving the ball.
The prospect of a relief from the monotony of life on the floe raised all our spirits.
Many of the important events of our Expedition occurred on Sundays, and this particular day was to see our forced departure from the floe on which we had lived for nearly six months, and the start of our journeyings in the boats.
Shortly before noon further progress was barred by heavy pack, and we put an ice-anchor on the floe and banked the fires.
During the night the floeholding the ship aft cracked in several places, and this appeared to have eased the strain on the rudder.
Heaving hills of pack and floe were sweeping towards us in long undulations, later to be broken here and there by the dark lines that indicated open water.
We cut a slipway from our floe into a lead which ran alongside, and the boats took the water "like a bird," as one sailor remarked.
The diet suits us, since we cannot get much exercise on the floe and the blubber supplies heat.
Each time I came to the end of my beat on the floe I could just see in the darkness the uprearing piles of pressure-ice, which toppled over and narrowed still further the little floating island we occupied.
It seems extraordinary that the ship should be held in an almost unbroken floe of about a mile square, the more so as this patch was completely screwed and broken during the smash in July, and contains many faults.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "floe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: berg; calf; floe; glacier; glaze; ice; iceberg; icicle; sleet; slob; sludge
