frost-bound

Example Sentences

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Far over the broad, rolling prairies, as yet bare and frost-bound, the sun shone brightly.

From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.

Surely she had wandered back into the cruel bitter winter, frost-bound and hard.

From The Diamond Fairy Book by Various

It closed reluctantly, with a loud shrilling of its frost-bound hinges and frame.

From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.

The sight of the familiar scenes had banished the “Dread of the Wild” from the minds of the two men, and their spirits rose as they approached the frost-bound river below their home.

From In the Brooding Wild by Cullum, Ridgwell

Here lilies that no hand hath sown     Bloom white as foam upon the sea, And elfin bells to earth unknown,     Hold frost-bound melody.

From The Ballad of the Quest by Sheard, Virna