frost-bound
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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
He saw rich nectar-thawes, release the rigour Of th' icy North; from frost-bound Atlas hands, His adamantine fetters fall: green vigour Gladding the Scythian rocks and Libian sands.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
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.
The roads were frost-bound and the trees leafless.
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Weyman, Stanley John
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
