"Frost-bound" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... just as the gray daylight came stealing through the frost-bound windows, rousing the sleepy passengers, and making Morris pull his wide collar a little closer about his face as if to avoid observation. He was not afraid of daylight except as it might disclose some old acquaintance who would perhaps wonder to ...
— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes
... the new Briarwood society. That vastly tickled Tom and he made himself just as agreeable to the girls as he knew how. Miss Reynolds was no wet blanket on the fun, either, and she was as good a skater as Tom himself. Ruth had improved greatly, and before they reached the frost-bound Minnetonka the teacher relieved Tom of his basket and told him to give the girl from the Red Mill a lesson in skating with a ...
— Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall - or Solving the Campus Mystery • Alice B. Emerson
... The frost-bound earth is free at last, That lay 'neath Winter's sullen yoke 'Till people felt it getting ...
— Green Bays. Verses and Parodies • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... from Scamander's dizzy flood arise Two fountains,[7] tepid one, from which a smoke Issues voluminous as from a fire, The other, even in summer heats, like hail 175 For cold, or snow, or crystal-stream frost-bound. Beside them may be seen the broad canals Of marble scoop'd, in which the wives of Troy And all her daughters fair were wont to lave Their costly raiment,[8] while the land had rest, 180 And ere the warlike sons ...
— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer
... chill, chilly; icy; gelid, frigid, algid^; fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous^, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved &c (made cold) 385; chilled to the bone, shivering &c v.; aguish, transi de froid [Fr.]; frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped. cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas; cool as a cucumber, cool as custard. icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose^, wintry, brumal^, hibernal^, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal^; hyperborean, hyperboreal^; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... At Donnaz the slow motions of the northern spring had endeared to him all those sweet incipiencies preceding the full choral burst of leaf and flower: the mauve mist over bare woodlands, the wet black gleams in frost-bound hollows, the thrust of fronds through withered bracken, the primrose-patches spreading like pale sunshine along wintry lanes. He had always felt a sympathy for these delicate unnoted changes; but the ...
— The Valley of Decision • Edith Wharton
... great darkness and starlight, and the cab made slow and painful way through the frost-bound streets. The amble and the sliding of the horse was exasperating, the drive unendurable with uncertainty and cold, and Mike hammered his frozen feet on the curving floor of the vehicle. Street succeeded street, all growing meaner as they neared the Gare de Lyons. ...
— Mike Fletcher - A Novel • George (George Augustus) Moore
... 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. ...
— The Rose of Old St. Louis • Mary Dillon |
