frost-bound

Example Sentences

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It pushes up until the frost-bound trunk denies it further passage and there waits the first brief respite in the air above.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop

Cold, but stimulating and pleasant was the clear, dry air; and our frost-bound world sparkled in the wintry sun.

From Willing to Die by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

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 were in the midst of the cruel, bitter winter; the earth was frost-bound, hard and cold, even as now.

From The Diamond Fairy Book by Various

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 MacDonald, Everett