"Labrador" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to the bleak Labrador coast and there in saving life made expiation. In dignity, simplicity, humor, in sympathetic etching of a sturdy fisher people, and above all in the echoes of the sea, Doctor Luke is worthy of great praise. Character, humor, poignant pathos, and the sad ...
— Aladdin & Co. - A Romance of Yankee Magic • Herbert Quick
... is in the latitude of Labrador, which on our side of the continent is the synonym for almost perpetual ice and snow; still these wandering Trojans found it a region of inexhaustible verdure, fruitfulness, and beauty; and as to its extent, though often, in modern times, ...
— King Alfred of England - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott
... Frost Spirit comes!—from the frozen Labrador,— From the icy bridge of the Northern seas, which the white bear wanders o'er,— Where the fisherman's sail is stiff with ice, and the luckless forms below In the sunless cold of the lingering night into marble ...
— Selections From American Poetry • Various
... geographers as the Old World; that is to say, you might meet with horses in Europe, Asia, or Africa; but there were none in Australia, and there were none whatsoever in the whole continent of America, from Labrador down to Cape Horn. This is an empirical fact, and it is what is called, stated in the way I have given it you, the "Geographical ...
— Darwiniana • Thomas Henry Huxley
... the one hand, and the great plains which stretch northwards to Hudson Bay on the other hand. The main area of these ancient deposits forms a great belt of rugged and undulating country, which extends from Labrador westwards to Lake Superior, and then bends northwards towards the Arctic Sea. Throughout this extensive area the Laurentian Rocks for the most part present themselves in the form of low, rounded, ice-worn hills, which, if generally wanting ...
— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson
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