frost-bound
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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
Occasionally the postmen have to encounter the difficulties arising from a frost-bound letter box.
From The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone by Tombs, Robert Charles
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 Lever, Charles James
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
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.
