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

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

Here lilies that no hand hath sown     Bloom white as foam upon the sea, And elfin bells to earth unknown,     Hold frost-bound melody.

From The Ballad of the Quest by Sheard, Virna

They drove on without a word, the frost-bound road ringing under the horses’ feet, the stars above smiling sympathetic indulgence at this last repetition of the old, old tale of man.

From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.

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.