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  • Morrel expected Villefort would be dejected; he found him as he had found him six weeks before, calm, firm, and full of that glacial politeness, that most insurmountable barrier which separates the well-bred from the vulgar man.   (source)
    glacial = the main building (or buildings) of government
  • As the bin continued to pitch, the scrap at the front began to slide forward, bit by bit, a great iron glacier breaking apart.†   (source)
  • The letters, like so many others, languished in the glacial mail system, and wouldn't make it to America until long after the war's end.†   (source)
  • The water felt like a glacier melting against my legs.†   (source)
  • In a glacier located in the Swiss Alps (or the Rocky Mountains, better, or on Greenland, even better), some explorers have found — embedded in a flow of clear ice — a space vehicle.†   (source)
  • She turned the card over and looked at the photograph of Glacier Falls on the back.†   (source)
  • These glaciers fed five of the great rivers in Asia, collectively supplying fresh water to nearly half the world's population.†   (source)
  • Our faculties wax and wane, our experiences accumulate, and our opinions evolve—if not glacially, then at least gradually.†   (source)
  • But his frustration at the glacial pace of change in his city had worn on him.†   (source)
  • He and Newt had just joined Chuck for breakfast at a picnic table right outside the Kitchen when a large group of Glaciers got up and ran toward the West Door, talking excitedly about something.†   (source)
  • It would've been so easy to push Malfoy off a glacier and make it look like an accident.... Shame his mother likes him...†   (source)
  • Islands and porpoises and glaciers and mountains.†   (source)
  • Do you remember what it used to be like, back in the Ice Age, when the glaciers covered the earth and the saber-toothed tiger roamed the frozen night?†   (source)
  • His eyes, still softened by sleep, were a crisp blue that made Alex think of glaciers and northern seas.†   (source)
  • THE WAY TO REMEMBER PLEISTOCENE IS TO REMEMBER THAT THIS EPOCH WAS CHARACTERIZED BY THE APPEARANCE OF MAN AND WIDESPREAD GLACIAL ICE—REMEMBER THE ICE, IT RHYMES WITH PLEIS IN PLEISTOCENE.†   (source)
  • The Lutzes and Ripplemeyers' fifteen hundred acres cut across a dozen ponds and glacial moraines, back to back in a six-mile swath.†   (source)
  • The queen's blazing, glacier-blue eyes were as ethereal as her lovely face.†   (source)
  • The Grand Maester's nod was as slow and deliberate as a glacier.†   (source)
  • It was dark, but there was a tungsten lamp not too far along the corridor, and if anyone was to look directly down, he would see us, stiff and frozen like fossils in a glacier.†   (source)
  • Along the walls, purple tapestries showed scenes of snowy forests, barren mountains, and glaciers.†   (source)
  • It was laid down over ten thousand years ago by retreating glaciers.†   (source)
  • We were playing this game-within-a-game where you shoot each other with paintballs on a glacier.†   (source)
  • Those glaciers are works of art!†   (source)
  • With a benumbed heaviness like moving through snow, I began to slog and weave through the debris, rubbish breaking under my feet in sharp, glacial-sounding cracks.†   (source)
  • Amy, of course, was a whirling dervish of doing—pack, store, toss—while I sifted through my father's things glacially.†   (source)
  • Streams flowed down the mountains from stolid glaciers and glistening snowpacks.†   (source)
  • The lake bed had been dug out by the southernmost advance of the Wisconsin glacier.†   (source)
  • Wallowa Lake itself is five miles long and one mile wide, formed, some say, by glaciers nine million years ago.†   (source)
  • Lightning exploded along the false horizon, illuminating icefields and glaciers.†   (source)
  • That meant keeping Jenny as still as a glacier.†   (source)
  • Rivers, hills, valleys, buttes, steppes, glaciers, swamps, mountains, prairies, chasms, seas, islands, people.†   (source)
  • Chapter 9 — Minutes Like Glaciers.†   (source)
  • In that glacier of words grinding toward the twentieth century, Prendergast's card was a single fragment of mica glinting with lunacy, pleading to be picked up and pocketed.†   (source)
  • We're moving, glacially though, so I have plenty of time to look, and it seems to me that I've seen that dress before, I've seen someone wearing it.†   (source)
  • Just then, the wind shook more fiercely through the trees around us, and it felt like it was blowing straight off a glacier.†   (source)
  • They had been carved to this shape millennia before by the remorseless pressure of towering glaciers.†   (source)
  • It was just one square room, in which I had arranged all my belongings, with a crude window in each wall so that by day the stifling desert air would have a chance to circulate, and with shutters to keep out the glacial wind that blew at night.†   (source)
  • She turned her head and saw, a hand's breadth from her eyes, those other glacial eyes, that livid face, those lips petrified with fear, just as she had seen them in the crowd at Midnight Mass the first time he was so close to her, but now, instead of the commotion of love, she felt the abyss of disenchantment.†   (source)
  • Black plastic reeds fringing two green, glacial pools.†   (source)
  • It was colder than ice, as if it flowed from the ancient glacial heart of the mountain.†   (source)
  • But Bree found his bedroom eyes'glacier blue'and brooding demeanor quite the turn on.†   (source)
  • These several histories were camouflaged in the jargon which, wave upon wave, rolled through the bar; were locked in a silence like the silence glaciers.†   (source)
  • As if my past life was revealed to be a waste, a gesture in slow motion, because what I considered scarce and precious was in fact plentiful and cheap, and what I counted as rapid progress turned out to be glacially slow.†   (source)
  • A glacial wind was enveloping us.†   (source)
  • There was a great crashing noise, the sound of shattering ice, a glacier breaking—and then the lake seemed to blow apart, silver water exploding upward like a reverse hailstorm.†   (source)
  • And, even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.†   (source)
  • He found sizable cities pixeled into mountain folds and saw black lakes high in the ranges, kettle holes formed by glacial drift.†   (source)
  • With Ancil unable to talk, Lucien spent the day in a rented car touring glaciers and fjords in the mountains around Juneau.†   (source)
  • She was close to Lake Anten in an area of rounded glacial moraines where fields alternated with small communities and dense woodland.†   (source)
  • The glacial towers are majestic and deadly beautiful.†   (source)
  • And what the glaciers don't get the polar bears will.†   (source)
  • At eye level, we soared past hanging green glaciers, splintering under a tropical sun.†   (source)
  • But unlike Helene, the Commandant exudes a deathly chill, as if her gray eyes and cut-glass features were carved from the underbelly of a glacier.†   (source)
  • It was as if a glacier was being born somewhere in the heart of the place, and its frozen tongues were squeezing out wherever there was an opening.†   (source)
  • Cold drops of sweat moved at a glacier's pace down my spine ...."I mean it, son," he said.†   (source)
  • Philon's answer is as cool as those glacier-like eyes.†   (source)
  • Yet, time nevertheless moved glacially.†   (source)
  • MARY COOK works on the ground crew for an air taxi company in Gustavus, Alaska, a community of four hundred surrounded by Glacier Bay National Park.†   (source)
  • We crept at glacier speed for several miles, and by the time the traffic thinned out on the M4 and we picked up speed, I was slippery with sweat.†   (source)
  • There were no mountains or trees to block the cold bite of the relentless eastern wind, carrying the frosty air from Reghed Glacier.†   (source)
  • '1 don't,' replied Harry Babcock flatly, his voice nearly glacial.†   (source)
  • In a month or two the really hard rains will come for eighteen hours a day and that waterfall will once again become tough as a glacier and wash away the road.†   (source)
  • The questions filled in the glacial pauses while Doris decided which card to lay down.†   (source)
  • And, lastly, there was a tall, lanky man with pale bloodless skin and eyes the color of glacial ice.†   (source)
  • Taps sounded by moonlight, by starlight, when owls swept low over the barracks, when the barracks looked as though it was carved from glaciers and the galleries looked like tiered cakes of gauzy ice.†   (source)
  • The highways eight lanes wide cut like glaciers through the uneasy land.†   (source)
  • These barren land eskers are the inverted beds of long-vanished rivers which once flowed through and over the glaciers that, ten thousand years ago, covered the Keewatin Barrens to a depth of several thousand feet.†   (source)
  • In the later, emended (and, I am convinced, truthful) version of her story she told me she felt no real bereavement over the seizure of her father and husband—she was by this time too alienated from both of them for it to affect her deeplybut she was forced to feel on another level shock that hammered at her bones, glacial fear and a devastating sense of loss.†   (source)
  • In the valley below him, beyond the house and barns, beyond the tamaracks—in the yellowgreen valley that thousands of years ago had been a glacial river, graveyard of fantastic beasts—his black and white cows were sitting in the shade of the maple trees at the corner of the pasture.†   (source)
  • Far off were the mountains, where power and beauty dwelt, where the thunder sported above the glaciers and the air was clear and keen.†   (source)
  • CROMWELL turns a look of glacial coldness upon RICH) RICH I'm sorry, Secretary, I'd forgotten he was there that night.†   (source)
  • She was not content with such a glacial rate of progress.
  • When it was opened by the giant, the chest gave off a glacial exhalation.†   (source)
  • Soon after, a boy broke his arm in a fall, and then Southwell drowned in a glacier stream.†   (source)
  • Glacier-cold wind swept into the Mercedes, but Bes stepped out wearing nothing but his Speedo.†   (source)
  • I tried to attack but I was moving at the speed of a glacier.†   (source)
  • I've got a thousand glaciers poised and ready to roll over Africa!†   (source)
  • That way everybody could head south and get away from the glaciers.†   (source)
  • The trees on the mountains gave way to thick glaciers, blue and white under the sun.†   (source)
  • Time dragged, the minutes moving at the speed of glaciers.†   (source)
  • Blue glaciers sat between the summits like frozen rivers.†   (source)
  • The Glacier Queen doesn't ignore me, exactly.†   (source)
  • Her eyes, a glacial blue, swept over the three of them like a tracking searchlight.†   (source)
  • Hazel remembered the Hubbard Glacier in Alaska—how the surface had cracked under their feet.†   (source)
  • Maybe Artemis and Apollo can explain—" A section of the wall calved like a glacier.†   (source)
  • With the door open, the glacial breeze was raising goose bumps on my arm.†   (source)
  • Even in the sun, the wind was glacial, and the wet made the cold actually painful.†   (source)
  • He knew roughly where they were going, but there were no signs or markers on top of the glacier.†   (source)
  • "The Milkwater flows from a great lake at the foot of a glacier," Stonesnake put in.†   (source)
  • 'I say, "Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?"†   (source)
  • Ever eastward, toward the Reghed Glacier and a place called Evermelt.†   (source)
  • The man in back was long and lanky, with pale, bloodless skin and eyes the color of glacial ice.†   (source)
  • His eyes were blue-white, like core samples from a glacier, and just as cold.†   (source)
  • Glacier light arising from blue ice is blinding and cool.†   (source)
  • Glacier was gangs-zhing, avalanche rdo-rut.†   (source)
  • I'm staying at the Glacier Inn on Third Street.†   (source)
  • The lobby had great paintings and photographs of glaciers and ice floes.†   (source)
  • My crampons crunched reassuringly into the glacier's rind.†   (source)
  • My face went Arctic, diving deep freeze, glacier blue.†   (source)
  • From the first hours of dawn, a glacial wind lashed us like a whip.†   (source)
  • A finger of warm wax was puddling out across the Bay of Seals, slow as a glacier.†   (source)
  • Our route to the summit would follow the Khumbu Glacier up the lower half of the mountain.†   (source)
  • The blade radiated a cold deeper than the Hubbard Glacier.†   (source)
  • We could not hold out long in this glacial wind, this storm.†   (source)
  • He looked around for his iron staff, which was still back at Hubbard Glacier.†   (source)
  • By the snout of the Biafo Glacier, the rain stopped.†   (source)
  • The shells land on the glacier to the west, and we can't even see them explode.†   (source)
  • Percy had gone over the side of the glacier to save them.†   (source)
  • Each of the men fixed his own tomar in place, then stepped onto the glacier.†   (source)
  • The movement of the glacier in the Icefall has been measured at between three and four feet a day.†   (source)
  • "The glacier line, then," Alessandro answered.†   (source)
  • If she failed, she might wipe Hubbard Glacier off the map and kill her friends.†   (source)
  • Water from a glacial stream was heated over huge fir logs that crackled like rifle shots.†   (source)
  • There were the hanging green glaciers of Rakaposhi, splintering under a tropical sun.†   (source)
  • It gets as white and hard as glacial ice.†   (source)
  • Then he turned and ran inland across the top of the glacier, leaping a chasm fifty feet across.†   (source)
  • A half a mile away stood Hubbard Glacier.†   (source)
  • But the glacier is farther than I thought.†   (source)
  • He located Hubbard Glacier, which looked discouragingly far away from Seward.†   (source)
  • "So Alcyoneus is on a glacier," she said.†   (source)
  • The entire ghostly army had him surrounded, gradually forcing him toward the edge of the glacier.†   (source)
  • Behind Percy, a wave surged up from the bay—a wall of gray water even taller than the glacier.†   (source)
  • Look, from Seward, the Hubbard Glacier is down here somewhere.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile the glacier kept crumbling, the edge getting closer and closer.†   (source)
  • Frank gazed at the clouds above the glacier.†   (source)
  • They climbed onto Anion and sped back toward Glacier Bay.†   (source)
  • That's the closest town to the Hubbard Glacier.†   (source)
  • Even Hazel, who'd seen glaciers before, couldn't quite process what she was looking at.†   (source)
  • And then the glaciers moved down and wiped the Titans out beyond recovery.†   (source)
  • In the second or so it took for him to take in what she had said, Harry's insides had become glacial.†   (source)
  • Without doubt, it was the best stuff I'd ever had—with the sweetness of honey, the richness of chocolate, and the coolness of glacier ice, yet it tasted unlike any of those.†   (source)
  • One day it was still cold spring, with gusting showers and chilly white clouds remote above the glacial blue of the lake; then suddenly the daffodils withered, the tulips burst open and turned inside out as if yawning, then dropped their petals.†   (source)
  • After numerous postponements, she shut herself up in her room on the date and hour agreed upon, covered only by a white sheet and with her head pointed north, and at one o'clock in the morning she felt that they were covering her head with a handkerchief soaked in a glacial liquid.†   (source)
  • Loose-pack ice, starboard side of the channel, or perhaps something calved off the east-side glacier.†   (source)
  • Despite being "out of fashion," not only do they add beauty to our daily lives, they lend material credibility to our presumption that the passing of an era will be glacial.†   (source)
  • He removed his rubber boots carefully and left them on the back porch — Myra has him well trained, he's not allowed to track what she calls his dirt onto what she calls her carpets — then tiptoed in his mammoth socks across my kitchen floor; which, thanks to the energetic scourings and polishings of Myra's woman, is now as slick and treacherous as a glacier.†   (source)
  • The problem was that while the majority of these rivers flowed into India, Pakistan, and Indochina, the glacial watersheds were located entirely within Tibet, a part of China.†   (source)
  • Transparent mountain ranges of data, endless glaciers of ROMworks, access ganglia spreading like fissures, iron clouds of semisentient internal pro:ess bubbles, glowing pyramids of primary source stuff, each guarded by lakes of black ice and armies of black-pulse pilages.†   (source)
  • Buffeting gusts of wind, which had initially slowed him, now shortened the time it took to traverse the mini glacier that was thickening beneath his feet.†   (source)
  • Some of the rock that had been scooped out had also been pulverized by the glacial action, turned into sand, and now made a small sand beach that went down to the edge of the water in front and to the right of the overhang.†   (source)
  • We just want the necklace back:' Instinctively, Jenny and I began to circle him from opposite directions, moving with glacial slowness.†   (source)
  • India and China had been quietly squaring off over the water contained in the Himalayas, the glaciers there containing over three thousand cubic miles of fresh water, nearly as much as the combined Great Lakes.†   (source)
  • The terror-filled nights of his childhood were reduced to that corner where he would remain motionless until it was time to go to bed, perspiring with fear on a stool under the watchful and glacial eyes of the tattletale saints.†   (source)
  • My library looks out on the glaciers and green skies of Nordholm while a walk of ten paces allows me to descend a short stairway to my tower study, a comfortable, open room encircled by polarized glass which offers a three-hundred-sixty-degree view of the highest peaks of the Kushpat Karakoram, a mountain range two thousand kilometers from the nearest settlement in the easternmost reaches of the Jamnu Republic on Deneb Drei.†   (source)
  • When he spoke, his voice was glacial.†   (source)
  • him the face of Ursula, confusedly aware that he was doing something that for a very long time he had wanted to do but that he had imagined could really never be done, not knowing what he was doing because he did not know where his feet were or where his head was, or whose feet or whose head, and feeling that he could no longer resist the glacial rumbling of his kidneys and the air of his intestines, and fear, and the bewildered anxiety to flee and at the same time stay forever in that exasperated silence and that fearful solitude.†   (source)
  • make out only the most general features: glacier-white walls, yawning entryways containing barred gates, and many thickly built square stone towers.†   (source)
  • Glacial as his progress was, still Renly Baratheon crept north and east with his huge southron host, and scarcely a night passed that Tyrion did not dread being awakened with the news that Lord Stannis was sailing his fleet up the Blackwater Rush.†   (source)
  • After seeing Pollard booting Acey's horses around Glacier Park, a horseman named Freddie Johnson contacted Acey and asked how much he wanted for the jockey.†   (source)
  • Percy realized that the floor, which looked like solid stone, was more like the glacier he'd walked on in Alaska—in some places solid, in other places ...not so much.†   (source)
  • Joramun had died thousands of years ago, but Mance had found his grave beneath a glacier, high up in the Frostfangs.†   (source)
  • Their father had been as relentless and implacable as a glacier, where Cersei was all wildfire, especially when thwarted.†   (source)
  • As if she senses my weakness, Helene grits her teeth and drives me back, her pale eyes glacial, daring me to challenge her.†   (source)
  • In the summer he usually raced at the cluster of tracks around Vancouver or at another western Canadian track called Glacier Park; in the fall and spring it was California's Tanforan; in the winter, Tijuana.†   (source)
  • I consider taking a shower anyway, not knowing how long it will be before I can take a proper one, but the thought of glacier temperature water hitting me full force makes me hesitate.†   (source)
  • They came across hidden valleys filled with beargrass and glacier lily and waded up to their knees through meadows turned to lakes of brilliant blue with lupine.†   (source)
  • He kept his face clean-shaven, but his thick hair fell to his collar like a silver glacier, divided by a streak of midnight black.†   (source)
  • His iris was a pale blue white, the color of a high mountain glacier, and it appeared startlingly bright amid the black of his scales.†   (source)
  • The Icy Tomb At the base of the great glacier, hidden off in a small dell where one of the ice spurs wound through broken rifts and boulders, was a place the barbarians called Evermelt.†   (source)
  • They hurriedly walked three blocks to the law office of Jared Wolkowicz, a lawyer referred by Bo Buck at the Glacier Inn bar.†   (source)
  • Slowly, the bar filled with other guests, including a lanky man with bloodless skin and eyes like glacial ice.†   (source)
  • ' What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers.†   (source)
  • After all, she'd raised a bunch of Imperial gold equipment from Glacier Bay and distributed it to the Fifth Cohort.†   (source)
  • A rare day indeed for the land that had come to be called Icewind Dale, a name well-earned by the eastern breezes that always seemed to blow in, bringing with them the chilled air of Reghed Glacier.†   (source)
  • Because Ozzie and Prather were law enforcement officers, American was by then treating the briefcase as if it were valuable evidence and crucial to an important investigation, when in reality it was a battered old leather bag with a few notepads, some magazines, some cheap soap and matches taken from the Glacier Inn in Juneau, and one videocassette tape.†   (source)
  • Then, quite unexpectedly, she saw someone standing beside her, a man with pale skin and eyes the color of glacial ice.†   (source)
  • On Madan's third attempt) however, he settled the Squirrel shakily onto the glacier with its tail hanging over a bottomless crevasse.†   (source)
  • The huge boulders surrounding the area were especially colorful, with varying hues of red and orange, and they were encapsulated in a thin layer of ice that caught the fire of the sun and reflected brilliant bursts of sparkling colors in startling contrast to the dull gray of the misted glacier ice.†   (source)
  • At seventy-six miles from snout to snout, it forms the longest contiguous glacier system outside the Earth's poles.†   (source)
  • At around 20,000 feet, where the glacier emerged from the lower end of the Cum, it pitched abruptly over a precipitous dro .†   (source)
  • Bordered by impassable mountains on the south, an expanding glacier on the east, and an unnavigable sea of countless icebergs on the north and east, Icewind Dale was attainable only through the pass between the Spine of the World and the coast, a trail rarely used by any but the most hardy of merchants.†   (source)
  • As dawn washed the darkness from the sky, the shattered glacier was revealed to be a three-dimensional landscape of phantasmal beauty.†   (source)
  • At summer's end, rivers of melted snow had cut new crevasses into the glacier, sometimes receding just before the cut would have opened to the sky.†   (source)
  • A military green Lama helicopter flew slow and low over the Bedford, on its way from the Baltoro Glacier to Skardu's Fifth Aviation Squadron airbase.†   (source)
  • The glacier's continual and often violent state of flux added an element of uncertainty to every ladder crossing.†   (source)
  • After struggling up a short fractured ice wall by pulling himself forward with his arms, he was on the glacier.†   (source)
  • The Biafo rises to 16,600 feet at Snow Lake before joining with the Hispar Glacier, which descends into the Hunza Valley.†   (source)
  • The gorak, seeing Mortenson stir, flapped away down the glacier, seeking another source of breakfast.†   (source)
  • As the glacier inched over humps and dips in the Cum's underlying strata, it fractured into countless vertical fissures-crevasses.†   (source)
  • By mid-morning he was off the glacier, climbing a steep couloir of ice that would take him as high as he had ever been.†   (source)
  • Sheer rock buttresses seamed with ice pressed in from both edges of the glacier, rising like the shoulders of a malevolent god.†   (source)
  • On the glacier, the American mountaineers taught classes in first aid, crevasse rescue, and basic ropecraft.†   (source)
  • He sought the one farthest from any farmhouse or village and closest to the great glacier upon which he would soon be walking.†   (source)
  • The line dropped straight down a vertical cliff onto a glacier, and detoured across the snowfields, for if it had been laid on the glacier it would have been ripped apart in the shifting of crevasses.†   (source)
  • A few minutes later Makalu Gall appeared, having been dragged down the glacier on a piece of plastic by a half-dozen Sherpas.†   (source)
  • "All the other expeditions strolled about a quarter mile up the glacier to greet us and give us a hero's welcome," Darsney says.†   (source)
  • Fifteen minutes down the glacier from our tents, their camp was clustered atop a hump of glacial debris.†   (source)
  • They were whiter than a glacier.†   (source)
  • But, finally, a mile or more distant, he made out a man's form, standing on a boulder that overhung the glacier, silhouetted against the sky.†   (source)
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