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.

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

From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram

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)

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

The breached ramparts offered but a feeble defence; the frost-bound earth made it impossible to protect the city by an intrenched camp; and the commissariat department could not sustain a long investment.

From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon