Sentences with phrase «vast lake of»

«For come, tell me, can there be anything more delightful than to see, as it were, here now displayed before us a vast lake of bubbling pitch with a host of snakes and serpents and lizards, and ferocious and terrible creatures of all sorts swimming about in it, while from the middle of the lake there comes a plaintive voice saying: «Knight, whosoever thou art who beholdest this dread lake, if thou wouldst win the prize that lies hidden beneath these dusky waves, prove the valour of thy stout heart and cast thyself into the midst of its dark burning waters, else thou shalt not be worthy to see the mighty wonders contained in the seven castles of the seven Fays that lie beneath this black expanse;» and then the knight, almost ere the awful voice has ceased, without stopping to consider, without pausing to reflect upon the danger to which he is exposing himself, without even relieving himself of the weight of his massive armour, commending himself to God and to his lady, plunges into the midst of the boiling lake, and when he little looks for it, or knows what his fate is to be, he finds himself among flowery meadows, with which the Elysian fields are not to be compared.»

Nothing will eliminate Verizon's vast lake of undeletable bloatware, though, which includes Amazon, Audible, Cloud, IMDb, Kindle, Message +, My Verizon Mobile, and Quick Memo apps.

The discovery of a vast lake of liquid carbon dioxide beneath the ocean floor off Taiwan has startled earth scientists and raised hopes for a new strategy against carbon dioxide — related global warming.

But second place goes to Saturn's moon Titan (0.64), which hosts vast lakes of liquid hydrocarbons but has surface temperatures of — 300 degrees Fahrenheit.

Earlier in its history, large meteoroids struck the nearside of the moon and punched through the crust, releasing the vast lakes of basaltic lava that formed the nearside maria that make up the man in the moon.

With the help of the European Huygens lander, it explored the stunningly dynamic atmosphere of Titan, discovering vast lakes of liquid methane and uncovering a vast subsurface ocean of liquid water.

Not exact matches

Even just seeing the vast expanse of Midgard's massive Lake of Nine is worth experiencing for yourself.

In addition to the vast online resources aimed at helping borrowers understand their loans, Great Lakes offers a number of different options when it comes time to repay loans.

But that's a reflection of the extent to which the entire watch and wearables markets are small lakes relative to the vast ocean of the smartphone market.

Neither can the lakes and rivers and bays and streams and creeks flowing from the vast oceanic sea of Nothingness be denied.

This is part of a pro-active project that demonstrates how this unique area has resonated with artists in the past and continues to inspire makers and performers working across a vast array of art forms, firmly emphasising the Lake District's important role within the UK's rich cultural life.»

Stanza Italian Bistro & Wine Bar Chef Logan Crew offers an array of small plates, fresh pastas and a wine list that stretches the length of Italy, served in a vast modern space that won the Best New Atmosphere award from The Salt Lake Tribune.

If there are vast, Big Sky - looking valleys, a slew of blue lakes that get bluer the closer they get to their source glaciers, and brown plateaus perfectly suited for a downhill Orc charge pop up, stop.

Working on a steamboat crossing the Great Lakes and transporting pioneers from the East to their new homes in the West, Joseph Naper heard their tales of the vast, beautiful, unsettled prairie lands.

In June, he announced that the track would be rebuilt as part of a vast equestrian complex and resort near the Wisconsin border in Lake County while the Arlington Heights site would be redeveloped as a business, cultural, recreational and residential complex.

She has faced criticism for not holding enough town halls in the vast 21st District that spreads from the east end of Lake Ontario to Lake Champlain and south to the foothills of the Adirondacks.

In terms of sheer numbers and need, one humanitarian crisis that could overshadow all of the above next year lies in the vast Lake Chad Basin.

For towns with vast tracts of land holdings like Minerva, Long Lake, North Hudson and Newcomb, the state share constitutes a significant chunk of their annual budgets — including about $ 3 million for the latter.

Today, the site is on the UNESCO World Heritage List and includes the remains of temples and a vast network of canals, ornamental lakes, and dikes stretching over approximately 150 square miles.

Samples from Lake Whillans, hidden under ice, contain thousands of microbes and hint at vast ecosystems yet to be discovered

This depth tolerance, coupled with the fact that quaggas don't require a hard surface to attach to, means they can blanket vast swaths of lake bottom inaccessible to zebra mussels.

Malaska works as a volunteer for the Cassini team in his spare time and at the conference he described a winding channel flowing into a south Titan lake that follows a path very similar to a stretch of the lower Mississippi river — and thus might carry a comparably vast flow after a methane rain.

In 1986, Venezuela's Raúl Leoni Dam flooded 1,660 square miles (4,300 square kilometers) of land, creating the vast Lake Guri, along with a scattering of nonsubmerged land.

Today the Bodele Depression — the low point of the vast ancient basin in which modern Lake Chad lies — is the most active dust spot in the world.

Climate change in the Arctic may not just produce the fabled Northwest Passage; it may also release the vast stores of methane frozen in its tundra and lakes.

These lakes may cover 20 to 40 percent of the landscape in vast areas of Arctic lowlands.

Ecologist Maira Nurkisheva is driving over what was once the northern shore of the Aral Sea, a vast inland lake straddling the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

Imagine a world where the average daytime temperature is -179 °C, and torrential rains of liquid methane fall from the skies, forming vast but shallow pools that cover an area larger than the Great Lakes.

Next, he wrote a simple aqueous geochemistry model to calculate how much of these gases would have been dissolved in shallow lakes and reservoirs — environments that would have been more conducive to concentrating life - forming reactions, versus vast oceans, where molecules could easily dissipate.

Schimdt has found evidence that warm ocean currents and convective forces beneath Europa's frozen shell can cause large blocks of ice to overturn and melt, bringing vast pockets of water, sometimes holding as much liquid as all of the Great Lakes combined, to within several kilometers of the moon's icy surface.

At roughly 12 kilometers long by 3 kilometers wide, with a depth of around 150 meters, it is but a puddle compared with the vast Lake Vostok.

The tents and outbuildings of a remote field camp on the shores of Lake Bonney in the Dry Valleys, in the shadow of Taylor Glacier, provide a sense of scale often difficult to convey in photos of Antarctica, where distances are vast and typical human landmarks such as power lines are absent.

Researchers found that the vast majority of Titan's lakes sit in sharp - edged depressions that «literally look like you took a cookie cutter and cut out holes in Titan's surface,» Hayes said.

BEYOND its polar lakes, Saturn's moon Titan has vast expanses of hydrocarbon wetlands, according to a new look at the chilly world's impact craters.

Environmentalists inside and outside China warn that the rapidly expanding dam lake is already causing destructive soil erosion and has polluted the river with vast amounts of trapped sewage, agricultural chemicals, and hazardous industrial wastes.

Instead of existing largely as separate entities, as experts had believed, the roughly 150 known lakes (and possibly thousands yet to be found) are likely part of a vast watershed, with streams periodically shooting from one lake to the next.

Frigid water is seeping into and out of a vast lake beneath 4 kilometers of ice in Antarctica.

Titan's lakes may form one component of a vast system in whichmethane circulates throughout the planet, much as water does on Earth.

The lake, which is almost half a kilometre deep in places, is on Rwanda's north - west border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (see map) and contains a vast reservoir of dissolved methane.

He spent his lifetime piecing together the story of how a raging wall of water hundreds of feet high roared across eastern Washington, carving deep channels before cascading down the Columbia River Gorge as a wall of water high enough to turn Oregon's Willamette Valley into a vast backwater lake.

Working mostly out of the Arctic Institute's Kluane Lake Research Station in Yukon, the U of T Scarborough Biology Professor has become intimately familiar with Canada's vast and unique boreal forest ecosystem.

The vast hydrocarbon seas and lakes (dark shapes) near the north pole of Saturn's moon Titan sprawl out beneath the watchful eye of NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Now, using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, they have found gravitational evidence that a vast sea the size of Lake Superior could extend out from around the southern pole.

Russian scientists are on the verge of punching a hole into a vast Antarctic lake that's buried under more than two miles of ice.

Containing more than one - fifth of the world's surface fresh water, these five vast lakes straddle the border between the United States and Canada.

Instead of water, liquid methane falls as rain, creates rivers that cut into the hydrocarbon - rich surface, which in turn make valleys, and flows into vast liquid methane lakes.

Glacier - clad peaks, virgin forests, vast turquoise lakes, and sub-alpine meadows, North Cascades National Park is a gem of a wilderness — one that is often overlooked by tourists and revered by rugged...

What was once a land of vast lakes and broad rivers has turned into a parched region of glittering stone and burning sand.

When finally given permission to camp on their own on a remote island in the middle of a vast lake, they are overjoyed.

As indeed is Smaug's assault on Lake - Town, but Battle of the Five Armies only succeeds in bits and pieces, and overall feels less like a film than an enormously long episode in some vast follow - up adventure serial.