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The great, crushing ice masses coming into view made him sound like the voice of pure reason.
In 1843, yet another British Army officer in Kingston, Ontario, in Upper Canada, wrote " Began to skate this year, improved quickly and had great fun at hockey on the ice.
In this manner he is able to quickly form a great variety of ice structures, including projectiles, shields, ladders, baseball bats, etc.
Iceman has also been able to move rapidly to another distant location while in his organic ice form, being able to deposit his bodily mass into a river and reconstitute his entire mass a great distance away in a matter of minutes ( by temporarily merging his molecules with those of the river ).
The mountainous districts of England, Wales, and Ireland were also considered to constitute centres for the dispersion of glacial debris ; and Agassiz remarked " that great sheets of ice, resembling those now existing in Greenland, once covered all the countries in which unstratified gravel ( boulder drift ) is found ; that this gravel was in general produced by the trituration of the sheets of ice upon the subjacent surface, etc.
From Pirates and Robbers which do so infest other voyages ; from ice and great frost, which do so much endanger the passages towards the Poles.
Due to its great age, the geographical distribution of Magnoliaceae has become disjunct or fragmented as a result of major geologic events such as ice ages, continental drift, and mountain formation.
Firmly they stood, one close to another, forming as it were a bulwark of ice ; and with great blows of their swords they hewed down the Arabs.
The history of ice cream in the 20th century is one of great change and increases in availability and popularity.
The Paleolithic period in Provence saw great changes in the climate, with the arrival and departure of two ice ages, and dramatic changes in the sea level.
Given the biogeography and appearance of the subgenus Olor it seems likely that these are of a more recent origin, as evidence shows by their modern ranges ( which were mostly uninhabitable during the last ice age ) and great similarity between the taxa.
At the end of the last ice age the North Sea was a great plain, and anthropological material, as well as the remains of animals such as mammoths are sometimes recovered by trawlers.
Former Philadelphia Flyers star Andre Lacroix, who received very little ice time in his single season in Chicago, joined Hull, and the pair became two of the WHA's great stars.
As Russell's character infiltrates the transnat terraforming project, the newly evolving martian biosphere is described at great length and with more profound changes most aimed at warming up the surface of Mars to the brink of making it habitable, from continent sized orbital mirrors, another space elevator built ( using another anchored asteroid that is dubbed " New Clarke "), to melting the northern polar ice cap, and digging moholes deep enough to form volcanoes.
One example: the discovery of massive ice ages in the Proterozoic, following the great reduction of CO < sub > 2 </ sub > in the atmosphere.
These people moved into North America when the continental glaciers of the last great ice age, the Wisconsin glaciation, began to melt.
The lake was formed in the last great ice age, but since 1900, has experienced cultural eutrophication.
Margaret took a great interest in many forms of sports ; she used the winters for skiing, ice skating and playing hockey, and played tennis and golf during the summers.
The 2007 – 08 season saw the team celebrate their 10th season of OHL hockey and the fans saw a great team on the ice as things went much better for the Battalion, with sophomore centre Cody Hodgson, rookie forward Matt Duchene, and veteran winger John Hughes, the team posted several wins finishing with a 42-22-1-3 record, just shy of the club record of 91 points set in 05 – 06.
During cycles of global cooling, such as the most recent ice age, enough sea water became concentrated in the great ice sheets that covered North America and Europe, so that the subsequent drop in eustatic sea levels exposed shallow sea-floors that have subsequently re-flooded.
Baker is considered one of the greatest ice hockey players of his era, and the first great American hockey player.
Unlike the grapes from which other dessert wines are made, such as Sauternes, Tokaji, or Trockenbeerenauslese, ice wine grapes should not be affected by Botrytis cinerea or noble rot, at least not to any great degree.

great and sheets
In Southeast Asia, in the first millennium, documents of sufficiently great importance were inscribed on soft metallic sheets such as copperplate, softened by refiner's fire and inscribed with a metal stylus.
Examples include great melt sheets and voluminous plutonic masses of granite, diorite, layered intrusions, anorthosites and monzonites known as sanukitoids.
The Riverworld has no visible moon, but a great number of stellar objects in the sky, including gas sheets and stars which are close enough to see a visible disk.
The job of designing and printing the new stamp was carried out in a great rush ; engraving only began on May 4, and stamp printing on May 10 ( a Friday ), in sheets of 100 ( contrary to the usual practice of printing 400 at a time and cutting into 100-stamp panes ).
According to Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos, on the death of Acacius, the emperor Zeno placed on the altar of the great church of Constantinople two sheets of paper.
Sung for short hauling jobs requiring a few bursts of great force, such as changing direction of sails via lines called braces, or hauling taut the corners of sails with sheets or tacks.
The team managers draw on a great variety of sources of information, including tout sheets by various forecasters, who predict the coming season's performance and the likely overall " value " ( often in terms of auction dollars ) of the Major League players.
It travelled great distances within the ice sheets and glaciers, so individual rocks, whether on the ground, or within the great lengths of stone walls of the Park, may be local stone, or may be a specimen from northern Britain or even from northern Europe.
During the Pleistocene epoch, great continental ice sheets scoured and depressed the shield's surface, leaving a thin covering of glacial material and innumerable lakes and streams.
He was a strong supporter of the anti-Polish policies of the Russian Empire, and expressed hope that there would be no Poland under any shape or name In 1816 he removed to St Petersburg, where he spent the happiest days of his life, enjoying the favour of Alexander I and submitting to him the sheets of his great work, which the emperor read over with him in the gardens of the palace of Tsarskoye Selo.
The fourth movement, in F minor, depicts a violent thunderstorm with painstaking realism, building from just a few drops of rain to a great climax with thunder, lightning, high winds, and sheets of rain.
Mesenchymal cells can migrate easily, unlike epithelial cells, which do not show great mobility and which are polygonal in shape, polarized in an apical-basal orientation, and organized into closely adherent sheets.
Very great pressure and heat were applied, tightly compressing the paper sheets and fully curing the resins, to produce finished laminate sheets.
The effect was to deceive everyone on the flight deck, making them believe that the white mountainside was the Ross Ice Shelf, a huge expanse of floating ice derived from the great ice sheets of Antarctica, which was in fact now behind the mountain.
It contains 1040 leaves of strong, smooth vellum, fresh-looking today despite their great antiquity, arranged in quires of four sheets, or quaternions.
The small glaciers in the forest are less able to resist melting than the great ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica.
The mass of sheets flutters to the floor of the great atrium.
Cashman writes that he had an encyclopedic memory which enabled him to recall cricket score sheets ar will and was also a ' great eater and talker ', ' who could liven the passing hour with an unbroken monologue on any subject from philosophy ... to the art of seasoning a good curry '.
His constituents called him “ Honest Tom Duncombe ” with great affection ; to his detractors he was known as the “ Dandy Demagogue ” or the “ Radical Dandy .” His name was celebrated in working men ’ s newspapers and frequently mentioned in the gossip sheets of high society.

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