So I steered to bring the berg that was right ahead a little on the bow, with a prayer in my soul that there might be no low-lying block in the road for the schooner to split upon.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
It was a small berg, though large compared with most of the others; yet such a mighty volume of foam boiled up as gave me a startling idea of the prodigious weight of the mass.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
We were but a very little berg, nay, not a berg, but rather a sheet of ice lying indifferently flat upon the sea, and, as I believe, without much depth.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell