"Berg" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in our wake. Then the way became blocked ahead, while the vessel heeled to one side with a lurch, as a great block went under her keel. The captain held on steadily but slowly, stopping the machinery until a large berg was passed, and taking advantage of an opening created by the waves as they bore the floes upon their crests. As the ice-blocks closed in behind us the certainty of being unable to return, and the difficulty of going ahead, gave increased excitement ...
— A Trip to Manitoba • Mary FitzGibbon
... bear that made the little reception room such a delightful place. More than the busts in the library even, he set loose the fancy, and whiled one away to the enchanted North where the Snow Queen drove her white sledge through the sparkling glades, and the Water Baby dived beneath the dipping berg. ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... they made strange choice Of where to go, left the sweet day behind, And pushed up north in whaling ships, to feel What cold was, see the blowing whale come up, And Arctic creatures, while a scarlet sun Went round and round, crowd on the clear blue berg. ...
— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Jean Ingelow
... Istrfvaden sju ntter I hafvets vld; han fvervann dig i simning, Hade strre styrka. Sedan vid morgontiden Bar hafvet upp honom till de krigiska rmerna. Derifrn uppskte han, dyr fr de sina, Sitt kra odal i brondingarnes land, Den fagra fridsborgen, der han hade folk, Berg och ringar. Hela sitt vad med dig Fullgjorde ...
— The Translations of Beowulf - A Critical Biography • Chauncey Brewster Tinker
... high bold land on the north side of the magnificent inlet up which our course was once more to be directed. From the time of our leaving the main body of ice we met with none of any kind, and the entrance to the Sound was, as usual, entirely free from it, except here and there a berg, floating about in that solitary grandeur of which these enormous masses, when occurring in the midst of an extensive sea, are calculated to convey so ...
— Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage • William Edward Parry
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