Sentences with phrase «icy lands of»

To prove herself, Lara and Jonah Maiava, a returning character from the preceding game, begin their investigation in the dangerous and icy lands of Siberia, in search for the ancient city of Kitezh, which Lara believes to hold some truth about immortality.

And like many brave adventurers before us, we've decided that the icy lands of the Arctic Circle and the Antarctic are irresistibly calling.

You play as the sole survivor of a ranger squad called Team November that was dispatched to Colorado, an icy land of buried secrets that's far removed from the Desert Rangers.

Not exact matches

O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended in the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames in summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it --

Gordon wrote on many topics: angling techniques («The fly must be placed to an inch as the fish will rarely take it unless it floats over them just right»), the books he read, the effects of drought and floods on fish, the seasons of the year («The silence of the snows is over all the land, and the bright waters of our trout streams run almost black between icy banks») and his belief in the natural fly as a model for the artificial («The insect must be studied and many patterns dressed before one can hope to satisfy the critical eyes of the trout»).

The Delta Air Lines flight that crash landed at LaGuardia Airport yesterday morning skidded off a runway that had just been cleared of snow and came to rest just inches short of the icy waters that surround the terminal.

But roughly 91 percent of Antarctica — nearly twice the size of Australia — is unmapped, and the largest unsurveyed region on the icy continent is a region called Princess Elizabeth Land.

It's been a busy time for NASA: Just before the first rover landed on Mars (page 10), the Stardust spacecraft achieved a dazzling double score, collecting pieces of comet Wild 2 (the first sample of a body beyond the moon) and sending back pictures of the comet's 3.1 - mile - wide icy core.

Head does not expect to find the same icy cover in the equatorial regions of Mars where Spirit and Opportunity landed, but he hopes the «scratch and sniff» tests — in which the rovers drill into Mars rocks and compare the surface with the interior — will reveal the climatic history of the region.

As the penumbra slides under the bottom of the Earth, the partial eclipse is visible in varying extent across the icy land continent and just as it begins to slide back out into space it (just barely) manages to pass over Tasmania as well as portions of New Zealand's South Island.

In the greater NZ region, we have undersea hot springs (hydrothermal vents of the Kermadecs), marine hydrocarbon seeps and gas hydrates (offshore eastern North Island — possible analogues for oceans on Icy Worlds), and terrestrial (on land) hot springs in the Taupo Volcanic Zone and elsewhere around the country.

The Phoenix lander, on course to reach Mars on May 25, will assess habitability of a shallow subsurface environment of icy soil farther north than any earlier mission has landed.

A cool, icy color palette or some sparkle action on the sleeves is plenty of Elsa - inspiration for any real - life human not working at Disney Land.

Set decades before the events of either of its predecessors, Lost Planet 3 follows the exploits of «independent contractor» Jim Peyton as he lands on the icy, alien world EDN III.

As an all - seasons car, the four - wheel drive version of the Vitara is a practical choice — it might not climb a mountain or cross a river like the Land Rover Defender, but it's perfectly capable of crossing a muddy field or finding traction on icy roads where two - wheel - drive cars would scrabble for grip.

With the whole front end of the Land Rover Discovery Sport submerged under icy water, there's nothing but waves out the front window.

I have to wait briefly while another of Land Rover's Scots clears a small iceberg from the floe, then it's down the steep, icy bank and into water that was made on a glacier.

Poor to dangerous car stability on two occasions First time on a slightly icy road the car did a 180 degree turn while driving at 40 miles / hour, I landed on the opposite direction of a two way street, fortunately nobody was driving on the other side Second time the car did a 90 degree turn on a slightly wet road, again driving ~ 35 - 40 miles / hour On both occasions the CR - V had top of the line tires that were in fine condition I have also been driving VW and Hyundai cars and never had this kind of experiences as I had with the CR - V

Thousands of hours have been invested in tackling the challenging Big Red sand dunes in Dubai, driving through deep snow and over icy lakes in Sweden, and traversing the deep mud and clay and steep inclines of the Land Rover Eastnor Castle off - road facility in the UK.

You urgently need more food to feed yourself because the harsh icy weather has been destroying the single cube worth that is produced by your camp each turn, so you begin exploring the land to uncover potential prey, but that leads to more problems, plus you require wood to craft more weapons in order to successfully battle the creatures of the island.

Striding through the icy tunnels of Hoth as Darth Vader, cutting down rebel scum with ease; battling the Imperial forces on the forest moon of Endor as Luke Skywalker while the Empire's dreaded AT - AT stomps ever closer to victory; watching as a X-Wing comes screaming downwards for a perfect strafing run on an AT - ST; feeling a chill run down my spin as a team - mate is suddenly yanked up into the air and choked to death, the sure sign that I'm seconds away from death as Darth Vader himself comes into view; defending an AT - AT as nothing more than a Stormtrooper, witnessing raging battle on both land in the sky.

Covered in snow, this northern land dotted with houses made of ice will let you play four daytime & two nighttime levels, but be warned — you'll have to maneuver through some icy caverns and sharp icicles!

The second episode in the series (read our review of the first episode here), will continue the latest adventure of Jesse and the gang will venture into the «icy unknown'to try and bring down a fearsome for they unknowingly released into the land of Beacontown.

The landscape changes too and varies dramatically, with snowy tundras and icy peaks giving way into lush jungle forest, windswept heath lands, brutally hot and barren deserts and even, at the edge of the world, tropical ocean - lined beaches.

In Archaeologist Dinosaur - Ice Age, kids accompany Bonnie, a female paleontologist who journeys into an icy land in search of dinosaur fossils.

Drawing on the power that the land holds in our imaginations, Picturing the Americas invites visitors to traverse a vast and magnificent landmass that spans from Canada's Arctic to the icy tip of Argentina and Chile and to see its icons anew.

Using the figurines and builds included in the kit, photographer Markus Land constructed a series of photos showcasing the characters as they engage in activities like ice hockey or just surveying the icy planet.

Icy Silence from Climate Alarmists «Global land temperatures have plummeted by one degree Celsius since the middle of this year — the biggest and steepest fall on record.»

I will be watching this ice arch closely, because together with a group of 50 international scientists I am scheduled to sail these icy waters aboard the Swedish icebreaker Oden this summer for a multitude of experiments to take place in Petermann Fjord with data sampling of adjacent ice, ocean, and land.

An ancient catastrophe that killed half of the marine species in the oceans - and swept the land clear for the dinosaurs to dominate - may have been tied to icy - methane crystals buried in sea - sediments.