Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 12 | 208 | Some of these View more quotes about pieces">pieces of ice reared more than a thousand feet into the air. |
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Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 12 | 210 | Their occasional vastnesses, and the might of the forces that have formed them, become even more impressive when it is understood that what one can see above the surface does little more than hint at what lies below. |
| 12 | 211 | The fresh-water ice from which such blocks are formed is less dense than the salt water in which they float, weighing only about seven-eighths as much. |
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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.
Their occasional vastnesses, and the might of the forces that have formed them, become even more impressive when it is understood that what one can see above the surface does little more than hint at what lies below.
The fresh-water ice from which such blocks are formed is less dense than the salt water in which they float, weighing only about seven-eighths as much.
- (Beasts of Gor)