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black frost |
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black frost n (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a frost without snow or rime that is severe enough to blacken vegetation How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In the morning he looked out on the black frost that seemed to press cruelly on every blade of grass, while the half-icy red pool shivered under the bitter wind; but towards evening the snow began to fall, and curtained from him even that dreary outlook, shutting him close up with his narrow grief. On that bleak hill-top the earth was hard with a black frost, and the air made me shiver through every limb. Early in December came a black frost, and navigation on the canal was suspended. |
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