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fiord [fee-ord] Noun same as fjord
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The lesson for him was one of trust and courage; and I, who seemed to be then shut in upon a mountain-walled fiord without inlet or outlet, took the lesson home and promised myself not to lose heart again. Hump, if you will look on the west coast of the map of Norway you will see an indentation called Romsdal Fiord. From our new Cape Horn in Denmark, a chain of mountains, scarcely half the height of the Alps, would run in a straight line due southward; and on its western flank every deep creek of the sea, or fiord, would end in "bold and astonishing glaciers. |
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fiord - a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway
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