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  • In a hearty black-frost they look small, until the snow falls over them.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • In the midst of the great black-frost at the close of 1848, he was at a small dinner-party at the house of a widow lady, about four miles from his lodgings.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

  • In a hearty black-frost they look small, until the snow falls over them.

    Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

  • ` ` Nay, brother, '' said the elder from Canterbury, ` ` the hoar-frost and the black-frost hath done its work on Brother Adam and Sister Martha, even as we sometimes discern its traces in our cornfields, while they are yet green.

    The Shaker Bridal 1837

  • Filters include the neutral-density .6 solid filter; the ND .6 soft-edge grad; the Century polarizer; the black-frost 1/2 diffusion filter; and the Century skin-tone enhancer.

    Broadcast Engineering RSS Feed 2010

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