Examples from literature

• Gentle breezes from the east, south, and south-west did not disturb the hardening floes. 
• Soon they would be able to cross from the solid shore ice to the drifting floe. 
• The easterly gale would send the floes up stream. 
• They found a small floe of level ice close to the beach, which appeared very lately formed. 
• We then passed over four or five small floes, and across the pools of water that lay between them.