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"South pole" Quotes from Famous Books

... course of events. When this occurs the hearer finds it necessary, if events are simple, properly to get hold of it. When I hear that a new Niebelungen manuscript has been discovered, or a cure for leprosy, or that the South Pole has been reached, I am astonished, but immediate conception on my part is altogether superfluous. But that ancient time in which our habitual movements came into being, and which has endured longer, incomparably longer than our present civilization, knew nothing ...

— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden

... South Pole," was the answer. "Ha! ha! ha! We will pass over the ice floes and reach the ...

— Frank Merriwell's Bravery • Burt L. Standish

... the ships never go'—between the heel of New Zealand and the South Pole, there is a sea-piece showing a steamer trying to come round in the trough of a big beam sea. The wet light of the day's end comes more from the water than the sky, and the waves are colourless through ...

— Letters of Travel (1892-1913) • Rudyard Kipling

... with long ivory horns. But the sperm whales are such raging, ramping, roaring, rumbustious fellows, that, if Mother Carey let them in, there would be no more peace in Peacepool. So she packs them away in a great pond by themselves at the South Pole, two hundred and sixty-three miles south- southeast of Mount Erebus, the great volcano in the ice; and there they butt each other with their ugly noses, day and night from year's end ...

— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester

... that's real easy," sniffed Tom. "I am bound up like a bale of hay to be shipped to the South Pole!" ...

— The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle - or The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht. • Edward Stratemeyer (AKA Arthur M. Winfield)

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