“Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;
Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,
Frozen by distance.”
Address to Kilchurn Castle.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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“And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.”
Source: The Temptation of St. Antony

Source: 1912, Les exposants au public', 1912, pp. 2, 3.

“As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops.”
1939. Quoted in "Objective: Limited" - "Time Magazine" article - December 20, 1943

"Mount Shasta" in Picturesque California (1888-1890) page 148; reprinted in Steep Trails (1918), chapter 3
1880s
Source: Drenai series, Quest for Lost Heroes, Ch. 1
Context: Gentlemen, you are in sorry condition. But war will render you yet more sorry. The soldier will fight in mud and hail, snow and ice, drought and flood. It is rare that a warrior gets to fight in comfort.

“Star of resplendent front! Thy glorious eye
Shines on me still from out yon clouded sky.”
Arcturus (To Edgar Allan Poe).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)