…all over was reflected the pitiless, white glare of the ice…
(Mawson, 1915, p.33)
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Personification …an imaginary person conceived as representing a thing or abstraction 1850 …a person or thing viewed as embodying a quality etc., or as exemplifying it in a striking manner ; an ‘incarnation’ (of something) 1807 … The personification of church and country as females 1875
(Shorter Oxford Dictionary, 1985, p. 1561)