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Definition of Frostbiting
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frostbiting
Literary usage of Frostbiting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Year's Residence, in the United States of America: Treating of the Face of by William Cobbett (1819)
"It is very well known, in the Northern countries, that, if the cold be such as
to produce danger of frostbiting, you must take care not to drink strong ..."
2. The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt in His Voyage Into the South by Richard Hawkins, Charles Ramsay Drinkwater Bethune (1847)
"... that I might thereby be the better assisted, especially by such as had been
upon those frostbiting voyages, by which they were hardened for indurance, ..."
3. A Popular Guide to the Observation of Nature;: Or, Hints of Inducement to by Robert Mudie (1832)
"In summer, warm water is a luxury, and a wholesome, and almost immediately a
cooling luxury; but they who would escape chilblains and frostbiting should ..."
4. Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings by Joseph Hall (1837)
"This grain, after a little frostbiting, will sprout up the more : if, elsewhere,
the Psalmist say, ..."
5. Scott's Last Expedition ...: Vol. I. Being the Journals of Captain R. F by Robert Falcon Scott, Leonard Huxley (1913)
"We started facing a very keen, frostbiting wind. Although this slowly increased
in force, we pushed doggedly on, halting now and again to bring our frozen ..."
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