frost-bound
Example Sentences
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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 Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)
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 roads were frost-bound and the trees leafless.
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Weyman, Stanley John
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
We shall skim over these frost-bound roads; only we’ll get jolly red noses.
From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram
