frost-bound

It was 10th February and the rattle of milk bottles was the only sound in the black, frost-bound streets.

The new presidential residence is a fitting testament to the self-confidence of the nation and the comfort it takes in its frost-bound maritime location.

His first reaction is a "horrid, frost-bound sensation" of pure terror--he sees no head.

Gunn had met Ursula Crowe on a number of occasions; a ferociously intellectual, humourless woman as frost-bound as her husband; they were welcome to each other.

As, when great Helios shines upon a frost-bound pool, the birds begin alighting, and at evening the beasts came down to drink, so I, being happy, instead of suitors began to have friends.

Long ago the human inhabitants of Venus believed that already in their day the sun was about to enter the "white dwarf" phase, and that the time would therefore soon come when their world would be frost-bound.

Still it was Winter, even in the dream; There was no leaf nor bud nor young grass springing; The skies shone cold above the frost-bound stream: It was not Spring, and yet the birds were singing.

Below the surface of a frost-bound garden there lurk hidden bulbs, which are only biding their time to burst forth in a riot of laughing color; but shivering Nature dare not put forth her flowers until the ogre has gone.

Pale hands appeared to reach dimly and imploringly toward him from the depths; and he felt upon him the frost-bound eyes of men who had been lost in former years; and beheld their sunken limbs, grown rigid in strange attitudes of torture.

Under its huge hairy brow its eyes were squinting with the effort both of seeing him and of getting all three of its brain cells lined up so that it could decide whether to trample on him or gouge him out of the frost-bound landscape.

But what avail'd, that twice thou dar'dst to try The frost-bound sea, and twice the burning sky That by winds, waves, and every realm rever'd, Safe, only safe, thy sacred vessel steer'd; That war for thee forget its dire commands?