frost-bound

Example Sentences

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They drove on without a word, the frost-bound road ringing under the horses’ feet, the stars above smiling sympathetic indulgence at this last repetition of the old, old tale of man.

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

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

But we might expect to see the whole wintry hemisphere, at any rate, frost-bound, since the sun radiates less than half as much heat on Mars as on the earth.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

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

The roads were frost-bound and the trees leafless.

From The Story of Francis Cludde by Weyman, Stanley John