Iceland

Examples

• The Great Geyser and the New Geyser are the most remarkable ones in Iceland, where there are about a hundred altogether. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• By the thirteenth century the Hansa merchants were already sailing regularly from Bergen across the grey cold seas to the Northmen in Iceland. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Neither the Danish kingdom (which at that time included Norway and Iceland) nor the Swedes secured very much in the scramble. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Hall next experimented with lava f rom Vesuvius, Etna, Iceland, and elsewhere, and found that it behaved like whinstone. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In the tenth and eleventh centuries many of their sagas began to be written down in Iceland. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In 1819 he had announced that the plane of po lari zed light--for example, a ray passed through Iceland spar--is deflected to right or left by various chem ical substances. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Geysers were first observed in Iceland and the name, therefore, comes from that language, being derived from the word geysa, meaning to gush or rush forth. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The air was now dark with snow; an Iceland blast was driving it wildly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The method was also known to the old Celts, as shown by specimens found in Iceland. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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