frost-bound

Example Sentences

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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.

To be sure, Margaret argued, Canada was a very wild and frost-bound country, scarcely the place one would choose to travel over in search of further refinement.

From 'Lizbeth of the Dale by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller

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

Nevertheless, the foregoing made up the background of his reflections as he listened to more "Alceste," resumed after a short note had been written for Onesimus to carry back over the frost-bound roads to Chorlton.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

We shall skim over these frost-bound roads; only we’ll get jolly red noses.

From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram