frost-bound
Example Sentences
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Then, when all was ready, the men took their poles and Nick broke out the frost-bound runners of the sled.
From In the Brooding Wild by Ridgwell Cullum
Gone," said the fern, "from your frost-bound touch; Gone from your winter's heart.
From Provocations by Sibyl Bristowe
But finally the crows rode up on the soft winds out of the South, and a benign sun broke the grip of these frost-bound hills, and gradually emptied their pockets of snow.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald
The sudden burst of vegetation—the rapid transition from the frost-bound durance of winter to the life and lightness of the young season, have a most exciting and exhilarating effect.
From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
She had recovered from the first shock caused by Carroll’s news, but though she could face the situation more calmly, she could find no comfort anywhere—Vane was lying helpless and famishing, in the frost-bound wilderness.
From The Protector by Harold Bindloss
