Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor (Individual 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. |
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Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 12 | 202 | These glaciers, like frozen rivers or lakes of ice, or emptying seas, depend to the shores of thassa, seeking her, flowing some few feet a year, imperceptibly like stone, to her chill waters. |
| 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. |
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These glaciers, like frozen rivers or lakes of ice, or emptying seas, depend to the shores of thassa, seeking her, flowing some few feet a year, imperceptibly like stone, to her chill waters.
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.
- (Beasts of Gor, Chapter 12)