Sentences with phrase «circular ice hole»
Farrow's second Émile Cinq - Mars novel opens with a stunning sequence in which the Montreal police detective finds a body submerged in water beneath a frozen lake, a favorite haunt of ice fisherman: «The circular ice hole was partially filled with water, and a few inches below the surface floated a human head, the long hair beaded with ice, the face plunged down into the frigid lake.»
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Thus we have berm, a lovely word for a longish mound used for landscaping; pingos, if you're up north, where they'll be rather large conical upthrusts of ice covered with some soil (and, of course, given the yin / yang of this business, further south also a circular depression typically filled with water); further south still you'll trip over drumlins, formations made up of till left by receding glaciers, and not to be confused with eskers, which seem to have formed within holes inside glacier.