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Their eyelashes were frosted white, as were their muzzles, and they had all the seeming of decrepit old age, what of the frost-rime and exhaustion.
A DAY'S LODGING 2010
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I do not remember once seeing frost-rime on the coats of my dogs down in the tent.
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The advance of the former was slow, limited by the sluggish pace of his cattle; the latter left behind him stubble-field and hedgerow, crag and dark heath, all glittering with frost-rime in the broad November moonlight, at the rate of six miles an hour.
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I do not remember once seeing frost-rime on the coats of my dogs down in the tent.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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Their eyelashes were frosted white, as were their muzzles, and they had all the seeming of decrepit old age, what of the frost-rime and exhaustion.
A Day's Lodging 1907
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Every coat -- beaver and bear and otter and raccoon -- hung open, every capote flung back, every runner hot as in midsummer, though frost-rime edged the hair like snow.
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I do not remember once seeing frost-rime on the coats of my dogs down in the tent.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 1900
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I do not remember once seeing frost-rime on the coats of my dogs down in the tent.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 1 Roald Amundsen 1900
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Their eyelashes were frosted white, as were their muzzles, and they had all the seeming of decrepit old age, what of the frost-rime and exhaustion.
Love of Life and Other Stories Jack London 1896
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The morning of the day to come broke clear and still, with the stars paling one by one at the pointing finger of the dawn, and the frost-rime lying thick and white like a snowfall of erect and glittering needles on iron and steel and wood.
A Fool for Love Francis Lynde 1893
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