"How I pity Ardan's poor friends the Selenites during that night so long and so icy! How impatient they must be to see the Sun back again!" "Yes," said Ardan, also sitting down the better to bask in the vivifying rays, "his light no doubt brings them to life and keeps them alive.
Without light or heat during all that dreary winter, they must freeze stiff like the frogs or become torpid like the bears.

I can't imagine how they could get through it otherwise." "I'm glad _we're_ through it anyhow," observed M'Nicholl.

"I may at once acknowledge that I felt perfectly miserable as long as it lasted.

I can now easily understand how the combined cold and darkness killed Doctor Kane's Esquimaux dogs.

It was near killing me.