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Animals.—As regards animals, the reindeer and polar-bears are peculiar to the north.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various

Half-melted snow, partly covered with moss, sharp stones, and skeletons of walruses and polar-bears, lie all about, their gigantic limbs in a state of green decay.

From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)

Or else, Loerke's dream of fear, the world went cold, and snow fell everywhere, and only white creatures, polar-bears, white foxes, and men like awful white snow-birds, persisted in ice cruelty.

From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Others had hands so thickly swathed that they looked like the huge paws of polar-bears.

From Combed Out by Voigt, Frederick Augustus