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Nova Zembla

noun
1.
Two islands in the Arctic Ocean belonging to Russia; site of a test center for nuclear warheads.  Synonym: Novaya Zemlya.






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"Nova Zembla" Quotes from Famous Books



... you exactly, arranges and redrills the scrawls which will bring back the sweet and languid summer and remarshal all its pleasant trivialities for anyone that chooses to read through the printed page, although he read two centuries hence, in Nova Zembla.... ...
— The Cords of Vanity • James Branch Cabell et al

... air—air pure and undefiled alike by day and by night.... The constant uneasy dread of taking cold, which haunts the minds of patients and their friends, is doubtless the one great reason why fresh air is thrust aside. And yet cold will not be caught, were it in Nova Zembla itself, by night, if only the sleeper's body be adequately covered.... The pulses or puffs of air that comes in ceaselessly, winter and summer, through open windows by night inspire just as if one slept in the open ...
— Papers on Health • John Kirk

... think I'd like to go to Nova Zembla first,—I found it in my jogafrey to-day, an' it sounds nice an' far ...
— The Money Moon - A Romance • Jeffery Farnol



Words linked to "Nova Zembla" :   Russia, Russian Federation, Novaya Zemlya, island



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