1 The Yukon was straining to break loose the ice that bound it down.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail 2 By the time they made the Hootalinqua and good ice, Buck was played out.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast 3 Billee, terrified into bravery, sprang through the savage circle and fled away over the ice.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast 4 Again, the rim ice broke away before and behind, and there was no escape except up the cliff.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast 5 He skirted the frowning shores on rim ice that bent and crackled under foot and upon which they dared not halt.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast 6 Its wild water defied the frost, and it was in the eddies only and in the quiet places that the ice held at all.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast 7 Air-holes formed, fissures sprang and spread apart, while thin sections of ice fell through bodily into the river.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail 8 A few sticks of driftwood furnished them with a fire that thawed down through the ice and left them to eat supper in the dark.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast 9 Some pitched the flies, others cut firewood and pine boughs for the beds, and still others carried water or ice for the cooks.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership 10 The Thirty Mile River was comparatively coated with ice, and they covered in one day going out what had taken them ten days coming in.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership 11 They were coated solidly with ice, and the two men kept them on the run around the fire, sweating and thawing, so close that they were singed by the flames.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast 12 A dozen times, Perrault, nosing the way broke through the ice bridges, being saved by the long pole he carried, which he so held that it fell each time across the hole made by his body.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast 13 Perrault was in a hurry, and he prided himself on his knowledge of ice, which knowledge was indispensable, for the fall ice was very thin, and where there was swift water, there was no ice at all.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang 14 At another time Spitz went through, dragging the whole team after him up to Buck, who strained backward with all his strength, his fore paws on the slippery edge and the ice quivering and snapping all around.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast 15 He learned to bite the ice out with his teeth when it collected between his toes; and when he was thirsty and there was a thick scum of ice over the water hole, he would break it by rearing and striking it with stiff fore legs.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang 16 He plunged through the wooded breast of the island, flew down to the lower end, crossed a back channel filled with rough ice to another island, gained a third island, curved back to the main river, and in desperation started to cross it.
The Call of the Wild By Jack LondonContextHighlight In Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast 17 They made good time down the chain of lakes which fills the craters of extinct volcanoes, and late that night pulled into the huge camp at the head of Lake Bennett, where thousands of goldseekers were building boats against the break-up of the ice in the spring.
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