item: #1 of 4 id: 14882 author: Wallace, Dillon title: Bobby of the Labrador date: None words: 60483 flesch: 84 summary: The minutes dragged and when at last Bobby and Jimmy came into view on the opposite side of the chasm it was a full two hundred feet in breadth. The ice broke loose and cut Jimmy, and me off from Skipper Ed Bobby of the Labrador CHAPTER I THE BOAT THAT CAME DOWN FROM THE SEA Abel Zachariah was jigging cod. keywords: abel; boat; bobby; boy; boys; cabin; cold; day; dogs; eskimo; fine; fire; god; good; home; ice; igloo; island; jimmy; lad; life; man; mrs; partner; place; sea; seals; skiff; skipper ed; snow; things; time; water; way; wind; winter; years; zachariah cache: 14882.txt plain text: 14882.txt item: #2 of 4 id: 21711 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: The World of Ice date: None words: 78669 flesch: 76 summary: The young can help themselves, more or less, and they have strength to stand their sorrows, with _hope_, blessed hope, to keep them up; but _poor_ old men and old women cannot help themselves and cannot stand their sorrows, and, as far as this life is concerned, they have _no hope_; except to die soon and easy, and, if possible, in summer-time, when the wind is not so very cold and bitter. he was the first awake in the morning and the last asleep at night; he always answered promptly to the first call, and was never known by any man living to have been seen with his eyes shut, except when he winked, and that operation he performed less frequently than other men. keywords: bear; buzzby; captain; cold; crew; day; deck; dogs; dolphin; ellice; esquimaux; father; feet; fred; good; grim; guy; hand; head; ice; left; look; man; mate; meetuck; men; mivins; moment; o'riley; party; poor; right; round; saunders; sea; set; ship; singleton; sir; sledge; snow; sun; time; tom; walrus; water; way; white; winter; work cache: 21711.txt plain text: 21711.txt item: #3 of 4 id: 21733 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: The Giant of the North: Pokings Round the Pole date: None words: 96195 flesch: 79 summary: My boat is on the shore,-- Said Benjy, quoting Byron, as he shook old Makitok by the hand-- And my kite is in the sky, But before I go, of more, I will--bid you--all--good-b-- Benjy broke down at this point. When Captain Vane called his son Benjamin, he was seriously displeased. keywords: alf; amalatok; anders; arctic; bear; benjy; boat; boy; butterface; captain; captain vane; chief; chingatok; course; day; eskimos; eyes; father; giant; good; grabantak; hand; head; hut; ice; island; kite; land; left; leo; little; look; man; men; mind; moment; north; oblooria; oolichuk; open; party; point; pole; right; round; sea; son; strong; things; thought; time; vane; war; water; way; white cache: 21733.txt plain text: 21733.txt item: #4 of 4 id: 23492 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: Fast in the Ice: Adventures in the Polar Regions date: None words: 28758 flesch: 88 summary: A large mass of flat ice, varying from one mile to many miles in extent, is called a field, and a mountain of ice is called a berg. The vessel in which they sailed became beset by ice, and could not be moved. keywords: baker; bear; brig; captain; davy; day; good; gregory; hope; ice; man; men; night; round; sea; sir; snow; time; walrus; water; way; winter cache: 23492.txt plain text: 23492.txt