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Frost over   /frɔst ˈoʊvər/   Listen
Frost over

verb
1.
Become covered with a layer of ice; of a surface such as a window.  Synonyms: ice over, ice up.






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"Frost over" Quotes from Famous Books



... cherished and guarded. He was a genius, and was at work on his masterpiece. But he was a poor man, and lived in a small garret, which was studio, workshop, and bedroom to him. He had his statue almost finished, in clay, when one night there came suddenly a great frost over the city. The sculptor lay on his bed, with his statue before him in the centre of the fireless room. As the chill air came down upon him, he knew that in the intense cold there was danger that the water in the interstices of the clay would ...
— Making the Most of Life • J. R. Miller

... malleable stuff; and, desirous perhaps of emulating the fame of Jedediah Cleishbotham, evinced a wish to undertake this momentous commission. But a remonstrance from three opulent farmers, whose sons he had at bed, board, and schooling, for twenty pounds per annum a-head, came like a frost over the blossoms of his literary ambition, and he was ...
— The Monastery • Sir Walter Scott



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