Mr. Blanky was sitting there with his ice-master counterpart, Mr. Reid, as were Edward Little and a half dozen of the Erebus officers. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)
Thomas Blanky wondered if he had been an instrument of evil — or perhaps just of folly — when he had used his more than three decades of ice-master skills to get 126 men the impossible 250 miles through ice to this place where all they could do was die. ❋ Simmons, Dan (2007)
There was a weird stillness over all, and whenever the ship was moved amongst the ice-floes a curious hiss was heard; this sound is well known to all ice navigators: it is the sear of the floe against the greenheart sheathing which protects the little ship, and it is to the ice-master what the strange smell of the ❋ Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans (1918)
It was proposed to take six warrant officers, including carpenter, ice-master, boatswain, and chief steward. ❋ Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans (1918)
On board a whaler she might have advantageously replaced many an ice-master or pilot whose business it is to guide a boat amongst the ice. ❋ Unknown (1874)
The doctor knew enough Danish to enable him to establish a very agreeable acquaintance with them; besides, Foker, who was interpreter of the expedition, as well as ice-master, knew about twenty words of the ❋ Jules Verne (1866)
Hatteras descended upon deck, and the ice-master took his place. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)
On the 3rd of July, at 11 o'clock in the morning, the ice-master signalled land to the north. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)
Long rafts of wood, with which it was necessary to escape collision, kept the crew on the alert; the crow's nest was put in its place on the mizenmast; it consisted of a cask, in which the ice-master was partly hidden to protect him from the cold winds while he kept watch over the sea and the icebergs in view, and from which he signalled danger and sometimes gave orders to the crew. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)
The ice-master, Foker, was an experienced sailor, and, like Johnson, was capable of rendering important service. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)
Hatteras called down the ice-master from his crow's nest, and took his place. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)
Just then the ice-master, who was keeping watch on the crossbars of the topsails, signalled a floating mass on the starboard, at about fifteen miles distance before the wind. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)
On Tuesday the 17th of April, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the ice-master signalled the first sight of the ice-blink; it was about twenty miles to the N.N.W. This glaring white strip was brilliantly lighted up, in spite of the presence of thick clouds in the neighbouring parts of the sky. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)
The ice "nipped" the _Polaris_, and it appears, from all accounts, that the ice-master who commanded ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
