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Upheaval is the one constant and clearly recognisable feature associated with, or preceding, ice-ages.

From The Story of Evolution by McCabe, Joseph

Star-drifts and ice-ages she knows nothing about, and if she did they would not alter in the least her rules of conduct for men and women in this world and in relation to the next.

From The Little Lady of the Big House by London, Jack

As far as present evidence goes we seem to be free to hold that the ice-ages which have at long intervals invaded the chronicle of the earth were due to rises of the land.

From The Story of Evolution by McCabe, Joseph