frost-bound

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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

Amsterdam, and crossing the ice with his cavalry took the Dutch fleet, as it lay frost-bound at the Texel.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

A frost-bound coast, an icy sea, rain, hail, snow and tempest, were the greetings of the telegraph adventurers in their first movement toward Europe.

From The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)

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

From The Diamond Fairy Book by Various

There was a quick movement all through the court like a ripple upon still water, and then, absolute silence--the silence of a night frost-bound and empty.

From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)