He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
He can afflict you with the snow trial, or with the hoarfrost trial, or with the ice trial, if he will; and anon he can with his word relax the bonds of adversity, and that in countless ways.
It is as much a heavenly supply as if it lay like a hoarfrost round about the camp.
We are not told that certain natural regulations form moisture into hoarfrost; no, but as Moses took ashes of the furnace and scattered them upon Egypt, so it is said of the Lord "HE scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
After all, there is a singular likeness in snow and hoarfrost and ice, and so there is a remarkable sameness in the experience of all God's children; but still there is a great variety in the inward operations of divine grace.
A man takes up a handful of ashes, and throws them into the air, so that they fall around: "He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.
McLeod Bay of Great Slave Lake, and the little stream which flows from Methy Lake is doubtless one of these, and possibly Hoarfrost River.
What matter that the hoarfrost and famine would banish us from your side and drive us far away to more fruitful lands?
This hoarfrost showed like an icy growth on the side of things nearest the wind, delicate fern-like formations, closely packed, that in some cases attained at least an inch in length.
Hoarfrost began to gather on everything, but it was not like the hoarfrost of a couple of weeks ago, which crystallised from the still, cold air on every side of everything.
Every twig, weed, and exposed blade of grass was frosted to three times its usual thickness with feathery hoarfrost of dazzling whiteness.
As the fog floated past a fine hoarfrost began to settle everywhere and the sun went down red as in Indian summer.
Yesterday morning the air became milder, the hoarfrost began to disappear, and presently the snow became "grippy" underfoot.
A little while later when the sun was peeping over the horizon I looked again, and after scratching away the hoarfrost that was settling on everything I found the mercury standing at twenty below.
It was a perfect autumn day, hoarfrostin the morning and midsummer heat at noon.
Zakhar held back his horses and turned his face, which was already covered with hoarfrost to his eyebrows.
This expression is misleading, for, although dew-drops are sometimes frozen into little globules of ice, hoarfrost is more often condensed directly from atmospheric water vapor in the shape of ice crystals.
A slight haze filled the air, not heavy enough to blot out the stars; but sufficient to promise hoarfrost at least.
It seemed as if the hoarfrost still continued to form.
Ymir fed upon the cow's milk, and she, in turn, got what nourishment she could by licking the salt and the hoarfrost from the ice.
That was expressed in the way these people climbed the highest mountains without tiring and let the hoarfrostof fearsome cold gather on their bare faces without discomfort.
They landed at a high south-temperate latitude, not far below the farthest extent limit of the polar cap; though now, in summer, it had dwindled to a mere cake of deep hoarfrost a few hundred miles across and on high ground.
In the night a hoarfrost had fallen, and there was hoarfrost on the branches, and on my fur coat, and Demyan was all covered with hoarfrost, and hoarfrost fell from above.
There was a severe frost, the air was calm, and the sun could not be seen: there was a mist above, and the hoarfrost was settling.
The snow-shoes rattled and rumbled over the beaten road; the snow creaked under our boots; the coldhoarfrost stuck to our faces like down.
Thumb scrambled up, and he and Nod hobbled off softly together to where the cataract hung like a shrine of hoarfrostin pillars of green ice from the frozen snows above.
In this sedge little birds were disporting themselves, flitting and twittering, with long plumes of every colour that changes in the sunlight, brushing off with their tiny wings the gathered hoarfrost into the still sunset air.
It is bright as hoarfrost on the slopes and tops there," said Nod, pointing.
Both the cold and the sparkling hoarfrost fled away as the sun got high; but Red Fox set himself at once to work completing his burrow.
This surprise over hoarfrost and ice, however, was nothing to his troubled astonishment on the coming of the first snow.
Hoarfrost mottled their leather harness, their downy red skins and the scars on their shoulders where atrophied wings had supposedly been amputated.
By the mural's light she saw that the newcomer had no hoarfrost coating.
Not till I saw what looked like hoarfrost dropping from the side of the Fall was the problem explained.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hoarfrost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: frost; hoar; rime
