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Definition of Hoarfrosts
1. hoarfrost [n] - See also: hoarfrost
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoarfrosts
Literary usage of Hoarfrosts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1843)
"They are able to fly with ease from one shore to another, and as each successive
night the hoarfrosts cover the country, and the streams are closed over by ..."
2. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1897)
"... in truth what can be the cause of these hoarfrosts and cold, so mnch greater
than we usually have in France? For it is well to consider it, ..."
3. The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848 by Guizot (François), Witt (Henriette Elizabeth) (1885)
"... thwarted, frozen to death by the hoarfrosts of Paris; he took the road back
to Rome in November, 1642, on the pretext of going to fetch his wife, ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"To add to these misfortunes, when spring cornes, the farmer, in his fear of autumn
hoarfrosts blighting the almost ripened ear, is a day early in sowing, ..."
5. The Historical Geography of the Holy Land: Especially in Relation to the by George Adam Smith (1894)
"2 Burckhardt (Travels in Syria, 92) reports strong hoarfrosts in November in Hauran.
Merrill (East of Jordan, 358) found ice in the heart of Gilead on March ..."
6. Library of Southern Literature by John Calvin Metcalf (1909)
"WE do not know why it is, and always has been, that winter is described in gloomy
colors. It may be that the hoarfrosts, and the glittering icicles, ..."
7. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1799)
"There had been considerable hoarfrosts before Christmas ; and afterward,- a fall
of rain and frozen matter, mixed together, glazed the smallest twigs to ..."
8. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1799)
"There had been considerable hoarfrosts before Christmas ; and afterward, a fall
of rain and frozen matter, ..."
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