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MRS BELLINGHAM: He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs and alleged profound pity for my frostbound coachman Palmer while in the same breath he expressed himself as envious of his earflaps and fleecy sheepskins and of his fortunate proximity to my person, when standing behind my chair wearing my livery and the armorial bearings of the

Ulysses 2003

It was that spirit that opened a communication across the broad continent of America; that penetrated to the frostbound regions of the Arctic circle; and that established

Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I. John M'lean

MRS BELLINGHAM: He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs and alleged profound pity for my frostbound coachman Palmer while in the same breath he expressed himself as envious of his earflaps and fleecy sheepskins and of his fortunate proximity to my person, when standing behind my chair wearing my livery and the armorial bearings of the Bellingham escutcheon garnished sable,

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

However, it was enough for the horrid, frostbound sensation which had gripped me about the chest to pass off.

The Secret Sharer 1911

The deserted quays looked very white and dry in the moonlight, and as if frostbound in the sharp air of that December night.

A Personal Record Joseph Conrad 1890

Nor -- though they looked -- could they find any trace of the palmer -- not even a footstep, since the ground was frostbound.

The Brethren Henry Rider Haggard 1890

His heart, which had seemed all frostbound for months, melted, and that hunger for love -- home-love, mother-love -- which was, perhaps, at the very bottom of his moody complex youth, found a voice.

The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

And we ought to retain the invincible green of cedars, junipers and box, cypress, laurel, hemlock spruce and cloaking ivy, darkling amid and above these, receiving from and giving to them a cheer which neither could have in their frostbound Eden without mutual contrast.

The Amateur Garden George Washington Cable 1884

He searched about hopelessly round the stones and in the nooks, all hard and frostbound; there was the shell of a snail, dry and whitened and empty, as was apparent enough even at a distance.

Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867

With such virtue works this Royal January Edict; as it rolls rapidly, in its leathern mails, along these frostbound highways, towards all the four winds.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838