Word: glacier
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Above, the threatening glacier gleams...
...Goth and the Arab, different in character and mission, alike in magnificence and energy, they came from the north and the south, the glacier torrent and the lava stream: they met and contended over the wreck of the Roman Empire; and the very centre of the struggle, the point of pause of both, the dead water of the opposite eddies, charged with embayed fragments of the Roman wreck, is Venice." - Ruskin's Stones of Venice...
From hoary glacier gray...