Though we're frost-bound now, open weather must come.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891] Reference

The Parsonage stands alone in the midst of the frost-bound fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference

During the day the sun shone out bright and powerful, but the nights continued to hold the forest frost-bound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference

He stooped to pick up a stone, in order to shy at the dogs, but found the earth frost-bound, and was disappointed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference

The ground was covered with snow to the depth of several inches, and the roads were, for the most part, frost-bound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery] Reference

The author brings out with sure touch and deep understanding the mystery and poetry of the still, frost-bound forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference

Should the soil be frost-bound wheel out manure and lay it in heaps ready to be spread and dug in where seed-beds are to be made.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference

But when her tapering horns are turned towards the north, passion becomes frost-bound, and seldom thaws till the genial season again approaches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Lore] Reference

It was the feast of St. Thomas, the sky gray blue, with a pale, cold-looking sun, the Queen's highway frozen into an iron hardness, and the pools and ditches frost-bound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference

Sheds on the frost-bound waters -- The glad stream.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference

Like frost-bound bulbs, that yet shall start and bloom?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maurine and Other Poems] Reference

One soul of sense in the fire and the frost-bound clod.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI] Reference

His heart shall be sealed as the voice of a frost-bound stream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI] Reference

Claude went walking all alone over the frost-bound, clanking roads.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Masterpiece] Reference

There was a rattling of horses 'hoofs on the frost-bound road; it was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by English Authors: England] Reference

Out of this snow-smothered, frost-bound valley there was but one trail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iron Trail] Reference

The larks sang at last high up against the grey cloud over the frost-bound earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference

The birds forsook their frost-bound nests, and sang cheerily in the clear morning air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance] Reference

A hard sky and a hard ground -- frost-bound ringing earth under rigid ice-mailed trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fruit of the Tree] Reference

Then he went down on all fours and put his ear to the frost-bound country road and listened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by English Authors: England] Reference

Two weeks later, when the new year was frost-bound, Lydia received this letter from her sister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thyrza] Reference

All are silent -- almost speechless -- and even the current of their thoughts is frost-bound by fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Caesars] Reference

Though she did not realise it, something long frost-bound in her mind was yielding, shifting, breaking up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron] Reference

Everything seemed so hard and frost-bound, that nature looked as though her fetters were rivetted for ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

She walked out into her favourite meadow -- now lying in the silent, frost-bound mistiness of a January day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Olive A Novel] Reference

And the doctor passed at a gallop through the village, whose lights shone across the white frost-bound road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)] Reference

Rhoda's eyelids grew moist, but wonder and the cold anguish of senseless sympathy held her still frost-bound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference

It was a Sunday morning and black figures moved among the paths, placing flowers on the frost-bound hillocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Touchstone] Reference

However, it was enough for the horrid, frost-bound sensation which had gripped me about the chest to pass off.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Twixt Land and Sea] Reference

At the farthest extremity of the smooth ice, which ended at a little frost-bound waterfall, they came to a stop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Violin] Reference

The Seine rolls blocks of ice, the soil is frost-bound, in all sorts of callings there is an enforced cessation of work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1] Reference

Unhappily, the White Sea, by which, since the time of Ivan IV, the English had entered Russia, is frost-bound in winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12] Reference

Paris was steeped in great darkness and starlight, and the cab made slow and painful way through the frost-bound streets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Fletcher A Novel] Reference

The stillness became an effort at last, but it was resolutely preserved till the frost-bound gravel resounded with wheels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference

The deserted quays looked very white and dry in the moonlight and as if frost-bound in the sharp air of that December night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Reminiscences] Reference

This was the way he helped to support that little fiction of the man of deep and strong emotions, frost-bound in an implacable reserve.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson)] Reference