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Ice Age
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  • It was more than a glen, it was a huge well dug out of prehistoric earth, a rupture dating from the Ice Age that had not healed.†   (source)
  • I had heard of the Wisconsin Dells but was not prepared for the weird country sculptured by the Ice Age, a strange, gleaming country of water and carved rock, black and green.†   (source)
  • Ice Age returning, no doubt.†   (source)
  • Like I can remember what it was like in the Ice Age.†   (source)
  • If you guessed that Freak has been reading a book about the Ice Age, you're right.†   (source)
  • Maps showed how the Ice Age once held the northern world in its grip.†   (source)
  • 8-degree rise in temperature over the last one hundred years, which foretold Sahara-like consequences throughout the United States, or (b) how global warming might cause the next ice age and turn the United States into an icy tundra.†   (source)
  • The islands had once been connected to the mainland, but after the last ice age, the sea had flooded the area to the immediate west, forming the Pamlico Sound, Until the 1950s, there wasn't a highway on this series of islands, and people had to drive along the beach to reach the homes beyond the dunes.†   (source)
  • It was as though his face had suddenly frozen in a split second in that certainty, and it looked like the face of a man who had been trapped and had died in the snow long ago, centuries ago—back in the ice age, perhaps— and the glacier brings it down all those centuries, inch by inch, and suddenly, with its primitive purity and lethal innocence, it stares at you through the last preserving glaze of ice.†   (source)
  • …one other spirit had trembled with the same touch of wonder: that at his side, living under his roof and eating his bread, was a creature to whom he could say: "That's Orion down yonder; the big fellow to the right is Aldebaran, and the bunch of little ones-like bees swarming-they're the Pleiades…." or whom he could hold entranced before a ledge of granite thrusting up through the fern while he unrolled the huge panorama of the ice age, and the long dim stretches of succeeding time.†   (source)
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