frost-bound
Example Sentences
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Surely she had wandered back into the cruel bitter winter, frost-bound and hard.
From The Diamond Fairy Book by Various
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
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
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 Tombs, Robert Charles
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
