frost-bound

On one of the lakes a swan was asleep; its long back was white as the snow of the frost-bound steppes, while glow-worms gleamed like diamonds in the bluish shadow at the base of a statue.

Dream tales and prose poems 2006

Uncle John Stewart is a type of a New Englander not often found in frost-bound latitudes.

St. Vincent Boom Times, Part I Trish Short Lewis 2005

And then two of them died, and she went forth herself to see them laid under the frost-bound sod, lest he should faint in his work over their graves.

Framley Parsonage 2004

The Parsonage stands alone in the midst of the frost-bound fields.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

Amidst all this wealth of nature and in this perennial summer heat I quite fail to realize that it is January, and that with you the withered plants are shriveling in the frost-bound earth, and that leafless twigs and the needles of half-starved pines are shivering under the stars in the aurora-lighted winter nights.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

But Lord Evandale is a malignant, of heart like flint, and brow like adamant; the goods of the world fall on him like leaves on the frost-bound earth, and unmoved he will see them whirled off by the first wind.

Old Mortality 2004

Bang, bang! went the first sleigh over a cradle hole in the snow of the road, and each of the other sleighs jolted in the same way, and rudely breaking the frost-bound stillness, the troykas began to speed along the road, one after the other.

War and Peace 2003

The author brings out with sure touch and deep understanding the mystery and poetry of the still, frost-bound forest.

At the Time Appointed J. N. [Illustrator] Marchand

From every hillside, from every frost-bound plain, the smoke of spring arose, and through the air there breathed the spirit of the reincarnated life of the world.

The Tory Maid Herbert Baird Stimpson

The ground was covered with snow to the depth of several inches, and the roads were, for the most part, frost-bound.

Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery C. A. Rose