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Frost-bound   /frɔst-baʊnd/   Listen
Frost-bound

adjective
1.
(of the ground) made hard by frost.





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"Frost-bound" Quotes from Famous Books



... powerful story of strenuous endeavor and fateful privation in the frozen North, embodying also a detective story of much strength and skill. The author brings out with sure touch and deep understanding the mystery and poetry of the still, frost-bound forest. ...
— Randy of the River - The Adventures of a Young Deckhand • Horatio Alger Jr.
... circulation, but there were greedy teeth behind the withered lips. Dramas brought to a close or still in progress are foreshadowed by the sight of such actors as these, not the dramas that are played before the footlights and against a background of painted canvas, but dumb dramas of life, frost-bound dramas that sere hearts like fire, dramas that do not ...
— Father Goriot • Honore de Balzac
... stillness of all things under heaven. At that I suppose he raised up his face, a dimly pale oval in the shadow of the ship's side. But even then I could only barely make out down there the shape of his black-haired head. However, it was enough for the horrid, frost-bound sensation which had gripped me about the chest to pass off. The moment of vain exclamations was past, too. I only climbed on the spare spar and leaned over the rail as far as I could, to bring my eyes nearer to that ...
— 'Twixt Land & Sea • Joseph Conrad


Words linked to "Frost-bound" :   frozen


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