Word: ices
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...willing to live at the North Pole as there. Let me drive this notion out of your head, that is, if you are men enough to acknowledge you are in the wrong. When we have winter there we have it in earnest, and there is usually plenty of snow, ice, ay, and cold; we don't very often have any of your Boston half-and-half winters, where it is so cold that you cannot keep warm when there is not a "mite" of snow on the ground. Are you not ashamed of yourselves when you see these moonlight nights...
...Irishman who was engaged to cut ice from a pond, when handed a cross-cut saw to commence operation with, pulled out a penny, and, turning to his comrade, exclaimed, "Now, Pat, fair play; head or tail, who goes below." - Mirror...
...After making my circulation perfect, my operator stood me up, and a stream that would have taken the prize at an engine trial was played, from a hose, into each particular ear and eye. What was left of me then took a feeble paddle in water that felt like ice, though its temperature was 80. One of the hospital beds received me after this...
...miles. A boat with stationary seats is being prepared for the crew, and the captain has ready now some uniforms, consisting of shirts, drawers, and stockings, all of crimson, that will be serviceable in cold weather. He intends to keep the crew on the river until the ice closes the channel, which will probably not occur before Christmas. The crew, as made up at present, consists...
...filled with a representation of the helmet and arms of the Chevalier. On the acceptance of this window by the Class of 1844, work will probably be commenced on the other half of the window, which, when completed, is to contain a corresponding figure of Columbus. After the ice has thus been once broken and a window fairly erected, it is to be hoped that other classes, beholding the beauty thereof, will copy the good example thus set before them, and evince their interest by contributing liberally to the furtherance of the work of adorning our grand banqueting-hall...