hard-frozen

Forgetting lunch didn't help, because by the time I had worked on the simmering stock, shoehorned in some writing, packed up a cooler-full of hard-frozen ground beef for someone who needed it, washed dishes mostly pots--such joy, and been through the 2+ hours of driving in traffic on a muggy day, the last solid food was many hours past and I was going very fuzzy around the edges.

From Twitter 05-12-2010 e_moon60 2010

The weather radio was the last sound I heard, predicting a hard-frozen night followed by a warm, sunny day.

The Dirty Life Kristin Kimball 2010

Here's a video, which clearly shows frozen bubbles rolling on a carpet, making it impossible to rule out the hard-frozen globe choices.

Archive 2009-01-01 James Gurney 2009

If there was a way to produce a bubble with some other chemical additive, a hard-frozen bubble might be possible.

Sub-Zero Bubble Discussion James Gurney 2009

If there was a way to produce a bubble with some other chemical additive, a hard-frozen bubble might be possible.

Archive 2009-01-01 James Gurney 2009

Here's a video, which clearly shows frozen bubbles rolling on a carpet, making it impossible to rule out the hard-frozen globe choices.

Sub-Zero Bubble Discussion James Gurney 2009

I faced a furious east wind loaded with fine, hard-frozen crystals, which literally made my face bleed.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

The sound of the saw cutting into hard-frozen flesh reminded Peglar of someone sawing wood.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

Hickey and his men had been unable to dig deeper than three feet — the ground below that level was as hard-frozen as solid stone — so the men had gathered scores of large stones to lay over the body before piling on the frozen topsoil and gravel, then more stones to lay over that.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

In the hardest frost, men who fish not for sport, but gain, take their axes and camping blankets, and go up to the hard-frozen waters which lie in fifty places round the park, and choosing a likely spot, a little sheltered from the wind, hack

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007