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• Muffled and rosy and frost-bitten, the tears of cold rolling unnoticed down her plump cheeks, she ran after my busy mother all day long, or tumbled about behind the counter, or nestled for a nap among the bulging sacks of oats and barley. —  The Promised Land
• I hope the angels did not have to count the tears that fell on her frost-bitten, aching hands as she counted her bitter earnings at night And who took care of us children while my mother tramped the streets with her basket? —  The Promised Land
• And his losses from killed in action, wounded, missing and frost-bitten were admitted by the Bolshevik reports to be over two thousand It was in this fighting that Bolshevik prisoners were taken in almost frozen condition to the American Y. M. C. A. man's tent for a drink of hot chocolate which he was serving to the Americans, Yorks, Russians and all during those tight days.
• Yes, I trusted that Chautonville would not come back from the trenches The pits stretched out in either direction--bitten into the ground by the most miserable men the light of day uncovered--bitten through the snow and then through a thick floor of frost as hard as cement. —  The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story
• With this generous and amiable view, he now for a course of sundry years had whispered, back-bitten, and lied; he had, as occasion offered, taken mean advantages of Maria's outspeaking honesty, had set her warm-hearted sayings and charitable doings in the falsest lights, and had entirely "mildewed the ear" of her listening papa. —  Heart A Social Novel

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