From his perch upon the iceberg Bobby looked eagerly for Jimmy and the skiff.
Nowhere could they discover the oars, though they clambered up the iceberg again and scanned the surrounding sea.
Work as they would, the paddles proved hopelessly inefficient, and after an hour's desperate effort they realized that they were nearly as far to seaward from the iceberg as the iceberg was from Itigailit Island.
Coming to a full stop, the officers climbed an iceberg to get a view of the situation.
Kane climbed an iceberg to get a sight of the road ahead.
From the top of an icebergthey surveyed the bay, and believed it extended inland thirty miles.
The morning dawned and showed the dim outlines of some large object near us, whether iceberg or land we could not tell.
Near them an iceberg had anchored as if to watch their movements.
Near us was an iceberg in whose side was a recess something like a grotto.
There'll not be much of this iceberg left soon," said I, "if the drift is to the southward.
The Polar Bear Porter on the Iceberg Express invites her to take a trip with him and away they go.
She was punished, however, by the loss of her jib-boom, as she ran against the iceberg at the rate of seven or eight knots an hour.
Off the coast of Labrador, they met an iceberg making its way toward the tropics.
Sometimes, however, the passengers and crew may escape in boats, and instances have been related where they have taken refuge on the iceberg itself, remaining there until rescued by a passing ship.
There is nothing so unhealthy for an iceberg as the Gulf Stream, and an iceberg seems to know it.
Now the minute he did it he knew that the man was right when he said he saw the shark wink, for it flopped out of that iceberg quicker nor a flash of lightning.
Not far away, off our weather bow, there was a little iceberg which had such a queerness about it that the captain and three men went in a boat to look at it.
The captain had a sail-needle with him, and so he drove it into theiceberg right alongside of the shark and split it.
The doctor had been up rock crags in the Austrian Tyrol, thrilling precipices steeper than the wall of Iceberg Lake, and he had climbed over ice and snow, also, where you had to cut steps with an ice axe.
It certainly was a pretty sight, and the most wonderful part of it to Tom was that these kids were born up here, thousands of feet above the level earth, and perhaps would never get lower in their lives than the shale slide above Iceberg Lake!
To-morrow I'm going back toIceberg Lake and look at the flowers more carefully.
But now he was bound for Iceberg Lake, and then up the very main precipice of the Great Divide, the backbone of the continent, with the Park Ranger and a man who had climbed the Matterhorn!
The trail to Iceberg Lake is such a good one, and the grade is so easy, that you can trot over a good deal of the distance, and Mills did not let any grass grow under their feet, especially as the horses were fresh.
Well," the Ranger was saying, "there's a mighty nice climb at the head of Iceberg Lake.
Just to the left, only a mile away, Tom, is the top of the Iceberg Lake head wall.
It was getting along in the afternoon now, the tourist party was leaving Iceberg Lake and winding down the trail like ants, and the three, without further delay, prepared to descend.
They came over Piegan, and they've been up to Iceberg Lake to-day, and now they want to climb Chief Mountain.
It was only a short ride to Iceberg Lake--about six miles.
Ralph thought it was a small island, but the iceberg broke up, both Ralph and his wife were drowned, but Barabas and Martha escaped.
In time, the iceberg broke, when Ralph and his wife were drowned, but Martha and Barabas escaped.
The last iceberg was seen far away on the eastern horizon.
It was apparently nothing more than a huge iceberg measuring forty miles in length.
The problem to be solved was, whether it was the seaward face of an ice-covered continent, the ice-capping of a low island or only a flat-topped iceberg of immense proportions.
For each foot oficeberg above the sea, there are three more below.
Then explosions, cave-ins, and great iceberg somersaults would occur all around us, altering the scenery like the changing landscape in a diorama.
When an iceberg is eroded at the base by warmer waters or by repeated collisions, its center of gravity rises.
When it overturned, that iceberg closed off every exit.
The most interesting sight was a vast iceberg in two parts, joined by an immense overhanging arch, under which it would have been easy for the ship to sail.
A mountainous iceberg while drifting slowly with the current sloughed off so much from one side that its centre of gravity was displaced and the mountain of ice turned a complete somersault before it settled to rest.
We altered our course and followed the edge at a proper distance until we saw a familiar iceberg that had broken off to the north of Framheim, but had been stopped by the sea-ice from drifting out.
It will perhaps seem paradoxical when I say that we all greeted this first sight of the ice with satisfaction and joy; an iceberg is usually the last thing to gladden sailors' hearts, but we were not looking at the risk just then.
When I afterwards asked one of them -- I think it was Beck -- what made them think of coming up, he replied that they thought we were going to run into an icebergand were trying to get out of the way.
Drifting floes came down upon us, and so as not to be caught by any iceberg that might suddenly come sailing in from the point of the Barrier we called Man's Head, we took our moorings on board and went.
I myself was the only man on board who had seen Antarctica; perhaps one or two of my companions had in former days passed in the vicinity of an Antarctic iceberg on a voyage round Cape Horn, but that was all.
At three in the morning of New Year's Day the officer of the watch called me with news that the first iceberg was in sight.
Chance willed it that at the same moment an iceberg came out of the fog, right in front of our bows.
Graceful started up, placed the poor bird that had sacrificed itself for him next his heart, and, with superhuman ardor, urged the iceberg on to safety or destruction.
Graceful listened for a moment to the sound of her flight; then all was silent, while the iceberg pursued its furious course through the darkness.
The track of an iceberg is indeed directed mainly by current, so small a portion of its surface being exposed to the action of the winds that its course is but slightly retarded or deflected by moderate breezes.
A collision with an iceberg which pierced the starboard side of the vessel in several places below the water line between the forepeak tank and No.
Collision with aniceberg and the subsequent foundering of the ship.
Cape Race tells Virginian to report to his | | captain the Titanic has struck iceberg | | and requires immediate assistance.
That it was quite possible on this night, even with a sharp lookout at the stemhead, crow's nest, and on the bridge, not to see an iceberg at this distance is shown by the evidence of Capt.
An iceberg may be defined as a detached portion of a polar glacier carried out to sea.
The helm was already "hard over," and the ship's head had fallen off about two points to port, when she collided with aniceberg well forward on her starboard side.
Our iceberg was about fifty feet in length and twenty or thirty feet out of the water.
So much of an iceberg is beneath the surface of the water, ballasting the whole, that it is rather ticklish business cruising in its vicinity.
Now fourteen or fifteen hundred feet, taken as the extreme height of the dressings, though they are said to occur greatly higher, would serve to submerge in the iceberg ocean almost the whole agricultural region of Scotland.
You will find that your shattered precipice marks, in all probability, the scene of a collision of this character: some hard-headed iceberg must have set itself to run down the land, and got wrecked upon it for its pains.
The state of keeping in which the boulder-shells of Caithness occur is exactly what, on the iceberg theory, might be premised.
Nor would Operation Icebergbe conducted in a vacuum.
The Marine components staged for Iceberg in scattered locations.
Later in Operation Iceberg he was killed by machine gun fire on Ie Shima, a nearby island fortress.
Frank ] L-Day and Movement to Contact Operation Iceberg got off to a roaring start.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "iceberg" 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
