frost-riven

He started violently at the report of a frost-riven tree, and the persistent rubbing of a branch against the edge of the roof set his nerves a-jangle.

Connie Morgan in the Fur Country 1921

The light from Brewer's hut, which was set back a little from the lake shore, in a frost-riven and water-worn niche in the precipitous cliff, shone mistily through the storm.

The Secret of the Storm Country Grace Miller White 1912

Now it was a long pool, for the tide was in, and the sea, working through the porous, frost-riven rocks, had half-filled it with water.

A Countess from Canada A Story of Life in the Backwoods Bessie Marchant 1901

In the forest around sounded the sharp crack of frost-riven trees; and from the horizon to the zenith shot up the silent meteors of the northern lights, in whose fitful flashings the awe-struck Indians beheld the dancing of the spirits of the dead.

The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century Francis Parkman 1858