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Fiord

noun
(Written also fjord)
1.
A long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway.  Synonym: fjord.



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"Fiord" Quotes from Famous Books



... consists of flat grain-fields, with one and another birch-grove between them; or else of long stretches of forest ranges. It appears as if it had thought about nothing but grain and turnips and potatoes and spruce and pine. Then comes a sea-fiord that cuts far into it. It doesn't mind that, but borders it with birch and alder, just as if it was an ordinary fresh-water lake. Then still another wave comes driving in. Nor does the hillside bother itself about cringing to this, but it, too, gets the same covering as ...
— The Wonderful Adventures of Nils • Selma Lagerlof

... regarded his performances for awhile with a mild and somewhat condescending interest, grew a little tired of them and looked out over the fiord, as a belle might do, with a suppressed yawn, when her cavalier fails to entertain her. Valders-Roan, perceiving the slight, now concluded to make more decided advances. So he put forward his nose until it ...
— Boyhood in Norway • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen



Words linked to "Fiord" :   recess, Trondheim Fjord, fjord, Trondheim Fiord, inlet



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