But in summer fruit and vegetables were frequent; there was occasional game and fish at all seasons; and the first heavy frost of winter brought the festival of hog-killing time.
But when frost grew imminent every hand who could wield a knife was sent to the fields to cut the still standing stalks and secure them against freezing.
It was inexpedient even for two or more adjacent estates to establish a joint mill, for the imminence of frost in the harvest season would make wrangles over the questions of precedence in the grinding almost inevitable.
This in the increasing frost mist was not so cheerful, but the current was soon cleared, and in another half hour we landed safe and sound at that miserable little town of Taman.
During the night a slight fall of snow had made the valley white, and a sharp frost had grizzled the long beard moss on the mountain trees.
The sun was bright in the heavens, the hoar frost sparkled on the ground, while every breath of the keen morning breeze brought high spirits and a hunter’s appetite along with it.
The day was December 18, the air brisk and fresh, with scarcely any frost in it--so mild indeed that during the ride I noticed several clouded yellow and small copper butterflies.
I am told that throughout the Kuban district, the tremendous frost of 1876, together with the floods of the same year, destroyed most of the pheasants.
Up to the time of which I write there had been no frostat Sotcha.
They must hunger in frost who spring-time have lost.
The sun wearies us with his great heat, the air with its coldness, and the frost with its torment.
Now the frost pricketh sore, then the sun glances; Now the rain beateth down, then the snow falleth, Nothing the cheery, brave Springtime appalleth.
Above, the world is tempest-tossed; Buried too deep for doubts and fears, The detonations of the frost Come dumbed and softened to their ears.
We strive and struggle and swink and sweat, And the end for each is one and the same; Time and the sun and the frost and wet Will wear from its pillar the greatest name.
All night the stealthy frost and fog Conspire to slay the rich-robed weeds and flowers: To strip of wealth the woods, and clog With piled-up gold of leaves the creek that cowers.
In winter all their sleep profound Through frost may speak to grass and stream; The snow may be the silent sound Of all they dream.
Some will sink by the way and be laid In the frost of the desolate earth; And some will return to a maid, Empty of hand as at birth.
We dared the frost at early dawn, And the dread tempest sweeping by.
LINE UP, BRAVE BOYS The packs are on, the cinches tight, The patient horses wait, Upon the grass the frost lies white, The dawn is gray and late.
They were either too hot or too cold, and the mosquitoes gave way only when the frost made slumber difficult.
Bring flowers, the latest colours of the earth, Ere nun-like frost Lay her hard hand upon this rainbow mirth, With twinkling emerald crossed.
It triumphs over the Prince of Darkness, and covers a multitude of sins, as dew or hoar frost cover and make beautiful a dunghill.
Spring rains fell in timely showers to wash it from mould, and revive it from the withering of frost and wind.
Frost kills young plants; and sudden changes in temperature seriously affect grown timber, producing "frost checks" and "wind shakes.
An original study of the splitting of trees by sudden frost and thaw.
This is called a "frost check" or "star shake," Fig.
From the first frost to the first thaw I'll have two fires going.
The mid-days were warm, and only now and then did the frost nip.
Frost Giants predominates, and we almost pity them as we read.
As the gods were men magnified and exaggerated, so were the Trolls diminished Frost Giants; far superior to man in strength and stature, but inferior to man in wit and invention.
In almost every respect they stand in the same relations to men as the Frost Giants stand to the Gods.
Just as their ancient foes were the Giants of Frost and Snow, so between the race of men and the race of Trolls was there a perpetual feud.
His transformation, too, into a hawk answers exactly to that of Odin when he flew away from the Frost Giant in the shape of that bird.
The frost exploded like pistol shots under her feet.
There was another explosion of frost as she crept nearer her peek-hole in the glowing window.
The frost has gone and little brooks of melted snow are running down the lanes and paths.
It has turned very cold again after the thaw, and the frost made everything exceedingly slippery, the roads are like glass.
In November there was a frightful tempest, the lightning doing extensive damage; and just at Christmas-time the frost set in with such severity as no man had known before.
Gophers did not move at all, and rattlesnakes had long since sought winter dens in which the frost could not touch them.
Running, the kitten looked oddly like a strip of black velvet upon which frost crystals sparkle.
They have no load of grief to bear, Of sin no dark, deep stain, And yet in patience take their share Of storm, and frost and rain.
Through which the same frost troops are sighing, Churlishly gloweth the charcoal flame, While a man lies there in penury dying.
Then a tremendous storm arose, and the sea became choked up with icebergs and floes which the frost soon locked together into a solid mass.
The frost rendered it impossible to form the snow into balls, but the men made up for this by throwing it about each other's eyes and ears in handfuls.
In a few hours the frost set in again as intense as ever, converting all their wet garments and bedding into hard cakes of ice.
In August the first frost came and formed "young ice" on the sea, but this lasted only for a brief hour or two, and was broken up by the tide and melted.
I've a mortial fear o' bein' bit wid the frost for it's no joke, let me tell you.
The intense desire for sleep which is produced in Arctic countries when the frost seizes hold of the frame soon confuses the faculties of those who come under its influence.
Noo, frost requires to be very long continued and very sharp indeed before it can cool the deep sea from the top to the bottom, and until it is so cooled it canna freeze.
As long as Fred had continued to walk and work, he felt quite warm, but the instant he sat down on the lump of ice to rest, the frost acted on him.
In the eye of the law it was so, and Mr. Frost had 1000l.
Mr. Frost said, 'Very well, I will go with you directly.
Upon this Mr. Frost was tried and found guilty of a libel, for which he paid the penalty of six months' imprisonment in Coldbath-fields Prison, London.
In the year 1817, Mr. Frost entered into a public political discussion with Mr. Cobbett, which was the first occasion on which he had been placed in a conspicuous position before the world.
Mr. Frost immediately sold his stock, and paid all his creditors, save one relation, who arrested him for a debt of 200l.
John Frost having come to Risca, remained there until shortly before daylight.
Here inquiries were made by Frost as to the position of the military.
We can play at being squirrels and live on nuts as soon as a frost comes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
