Part, Chapter
1 I, IV | by palisades twenty-five feet high, defended by a small
2 I, IV | snow-shoes, two or three feet long, capable of supporting
3 I, V | whip with its thong four feet longer than the sledge;
4 I, VI | brittle snow beneath our feet, or the falling of the avalanches
5 I, VIII | attain a height of some forty feet, supply the inhabitants
6 I, VIII | trees strutted ospreys two feet high-a kind of hawk with
7 I, VIII | which measured nearly six feet from tip to tip of their
8 I, VIII | creature measured three feet from the muzzle to the end
9 I, VIII | its tail; it had webbed feet, short legs, and its fur,
10 I, VIII | firm ground beneath our feet, and God be with us!”~After
11 I, VIII | an open fishing-boat, six feet long, rigged like a cutter,
12 I, IX | And now at about a hundred feet behind the boat a huge wave
13 I, IX | the two started to their feet and looked around them.
14 I, IX | managed with the paddles, six feet long, sped rapidly over
15 I, XI | reveal something; for the feet of the Indians and Esquimaux,
16 I, XIII | rectangle measuring sixty feet on the larger side, and
17 I, XIII | therefore have a length of sixty feet it was to have a door and
18 I, XIII | timbers, averaging some twenty feet in length. The axe and the
19 I, XIII | sunk to a depth of some feet in the ground, after their
20 I, XIV | grey wolves, about three feet high, with long tails, whose
21 I, XIV | birch, a shrub about two feet high, native to very cold
22 I, XV | pointed stakes, fifteen feet high, to which a postern
23 I, XV | were sometimes twenty-five feet above the ordinary level.
24 I, XV | when it is scarcely ten feet above the sea level at low
25 I, XV | rising some two hundred feet above the sea, frowned down
26 I, XV | surrounding country; at their feet lay the vast sea, stretching
27 I, XV | about on their clumsy webbed feet, or sleeping in family groups.
28 I, XV | males-creatures nearly four feet long, clothed with very
29 I, XVI | pounded by the animals’ feet. The beavers use their tails-which
30 I, XVI | clay, roots, &c., are two feet thick., They can only be
31 I, XVII | handsome birds, four or five feet in entire length, with white
32 I, XVII | hoopers, but have black feet and beaks, also passed in
33 I, XVII | with a soft Cushion several feet thick, which had to be cleared
34 I, XVII | covered with ice several feet thick. It was, however,
35 I, XVII | icebergs, some five hundred feet high, barred their progress.
36 I, XVIII| shovel; it was at least ten feet thick, and it was not until
37 I, XVIII| mass of frozen snow ten feet thick, extending over so
38 I, XVIII| them was not more than four feet thick, so that the apertures
39 I, XVIII| traps buried beneath ten feet of snow could not be visited,
40 I, XIX | A trench was dug twelve feet deep, and of a uniform width
41 I, XIX | of a uniform width of ten feet. A see-saw plank, which
42 I, XIX | finding beneath some five feet of earth and sand a bed
43 I, XIX | was a huge creature, six feet long, weighing six hundred
44 I, XIX | against a sudden chill, their feet cased in furred boots, and
45 I, XIX | of passage three or four feet long, which is about the
46 I, XX | revellers started to their feet, and looked at each other
47 I, XX | exceedingly cold, and ten feet from the stove, in the large
48 I, XXI | and the sound of their feet and their growls could be
49 I, XXI | the large room, about ten feet from the stove.~It marked
50 I, XXI | heard-growling, stamping of feet, and tearing of claws. It
51 I, XXIII| risen fifteen or twenty feet, it has scarcely risen one !”~“
52 II, I | been situated a few hundred feet more above the level of
53 II, I | sand—in a word, beneath our feet is a foundation of ice,
54 II, I | is why we found ice ten feet below the surface when we
55 II, I | shores the tide rose two feet beyond low-water mark, instead
56 II, II | go to pieces beneath the feet of its inhabitants.~In either
57 II, IV | and earth-rose some ten feet from the water. They were
58 II, IV | soil rose scarcely three feet above the water. The upper
59 II, IV | to be about four or five feet thick below the sea-level.
60 II, IV | immersed more than five feet.~This made Hobson very anxious.
61 II, IV | very anxious. Only five feet! Setting aside the causes
62 II, IV | ice was not more than five feet thick.~Long set to work.
63 II, IV | Mrs Barnett started to her feet, and both looked round in
64 II, IV | earth give way beneath their feet at any minute? What heart,
65 II, V | level was estimated at five feet; related the accident to
66 II, VII | breaking at the Lieutenant’s feet.~Hobson again had recourse
67 II, VII | They struggled to their feet and turned to the right
68 II, VII | sometimes bathing their feet, and presently gained the
69 II, VII | weakened ground beneath their feet. Holding each other’s hands
70 II, VII | here we are at last, a few feet from Cape Michael, and as
71 II, VIII | that it was about fifty feet wide, cutting the coast
72 II, VIII | brittle ground beneath our feet, which may at any moment
73 II, VIII | certainly, for its four feet would have left impressions
74 II, VIII | which now rose only a few feet upon the sea-level against
75 II, VIII | he was already some forty feet from the coast, and in his
76 II, IX | was, she struggled to her feet, and tried to follow the
77 II, XII | size, more than a hundred feet high. It was pacing slowly
78 II, XII | beating the air with its huge feet, between which it could
79 II, XII | difficulty in regaining its feet.~The monster made its way
80 II, XIII | towered three or four hundred feet above the level of the ice-field,
81 II, XIII | remained firm beneath their feet.~On the 24th November, however,
82 II, XIII | not more than a hundred feet wide, it is true, but probably
83 II, XIV | some three or four hundred feet. Two-thirds of the island
84 II, XIV | ground to the height of two feet.~On the 27th a somewhat
85 II, XV | fantastic landscape at their feet.~At this date the little
86 II, XV | did more than four hundred feet above the ice-field. The
87 II, XV | regretted, for it rose a hundred feet at least above the level
88 II, XVII | felt the ice beneath his feet trembling, which was certainly
89 II, XVIII| amongst the ruins two hundred feet above the island. The force
90 II, XVIII| height of fifty or sixty feet. The court of the fort was
91 II, XVIII| have to be more than fifty feet deep. It would be easy enough
92 II, XVIII| shaft through the twenty feet of ice; but great difficulty
93 II, XVIII| once more dawned, only ten feet had been excavated in the
94 II, XVIII| avalanche, although only sixty feet deep, covered a space more
95 II, XVIII| space more than five hundred feet in diameter. Of course the
96 II, XVIII| clock the shaft was fifty feet deep altogether, having
97 II, XVIII| been sunk through twenty feet of ice and thirty of sand
98 II, XVIII| have given way. Another ten feet and we shall come to that
99 II, XVIII| evening, another ten or twelve feet had been dug out.~Mac-Nab
100 II, XVIII| painfully staggered to her feet. Looking round her from
101 II, XX | volume being six or seven feet below the sea level for
102 II, XXI | this raft. It was thirty feet square, and its deck rose
103 II, XXI | square, and its deck rose two feet above the water. Its bulwarks
104 II, XXI | bolts. The mast, thirty feet high, was fastened to the
105 II, XXII | quickly melt beneath their feet! The wooded hills had disappeared
106 II, XXIII| ice, measuring one hundred feet at its base, and scarcely
107 II, XXIII| mean height was five or six feet above the sea level, and
108 II, XXIII| crouched like a dog at the feet of her mistress, and tried
109 II, XXIII| sea la not more than ten feet from the hill!”~It was true,
110 II, XXIII| it trembled beneath the feet of the anxious watchers,
111 II, XXIII| sinking vessel, with ten feet of water in the hold?~The
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