frost-bound
Example Sentences
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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 Everett MacDonald
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
Thousands, too, from the country, thinking to escape the dreary frost-bound months of rural life, flock to the city and join the enormous army of the unemployed.
From The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street by Frank Andrew Munsey
Occasionally the postmen have to encounter the difficulties arising from a frost-bound letter box.
From The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone by Robert Charles Tombs
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 Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
