frost-bound

Example Sentences

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Thousands, too, from the country, thinking to escape the dreary frost-bound months of rural life, flock to the city and join the enormous army of the unemployed.

From The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street by Munsey, Frank Andrew

Snow lay on the upper hills, grizzling the brown sheets of bracken, and dappling the green velvet of the sloping ling; the valley below was frost-bound.

From Ovington's Bank by Weyman, Stanley J.

The roads were frost-bound and the trees leafless.

From The Story of Francis Cludde by Weyman, Stanley John

Her green eyes shine through the frost-bound floes, and light the depths of the Northern seas.”

From The Fairies and the Christmas Child by Gask, Lilian

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 MacDonald, Everett