frost

• The snow lay deep, and under the stricture of the frost was as dry and powdery as sand, so that his feet sank into it. —  SICK HEART RIVER
• Everyone notices the Woolly-bear, because it comes out in early spring, as soon as the frost is over, and crawls on the fences and sidewalks as though they belonged to it. —  Woodland Tales
• The temperature had gone up to the seventies, and the frost was already melted from the ground. —  The Status Civilization
• At first, I believe our hearts burned against each other with a deal of enmity; but the darkness and the cold, and the silence, which only the cocks sometimes interrupted, or sometimes the farmyard dogs, had pretty soon brought down our pride to the dust; and for my own particular, I would have jumped at any decent opening for speech Before the day peeped, came on a warmish rain, and the frost was all wiped away from among our feet. —  David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona
• When the frost is all out of the ground, and all the snow gone from its surface, the flow stops. —  In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs

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