What is "frosts"

Usage examples of "frosts".

They were smaller now, stunted by late spring frosts, midwinter thaws, and the black blight of snow mold.

McNair went on, “Some other people I knew were two wealthy American brothers, the Frosts, Edwin and Dudley.

I've followed up your line, that it's sure to be hooked up with the Frosts, on account of the way McNair started his story to you.

The Frosts and this fellow Gebert are being investigated from every angle, up, down and across.

See that the Frosts, all of them, are acquainted with the terms of Mr.

He came in with his hat in his hand, shot me a wink, asked Wolfe how he did, got himself an everlasting blueprint of the two Frosts in one quick glance, and pointed his big nose inquiringly at Wolfe.

My only definite theory about the Frosts is something I dug up from an old family enemy, some old scandal about Edwin Frost disinheriting his wife because he didn't like her ideas about friendship with a Frenchman, and forcing her to sign away her dower rights by threatening to divorce her.

So far it's a blank, not only with the Frosts, but with everyone else we've investigated.

The vaulting will more than keep them occupied, we lose nothing by paying them through the frosts, and gain months of time.

Into the groves of Harry's stone forest, now magically coming into full leaf before the passing of the frosts, these echoes of the turmoil of the world came strangely and distantly, dulled of most of their import before they reached the ear.

Whole sections of the original flooring were missing, either torn up by greedy workmen or destroyed by frosts and falling stones.

Bitter frosts over the past week had glaciated the topsnow, making it crackle underfoot.

A season of floods, frosts, and thaws had gone on to break the walls, and it hadn't been difficult at all to find a way in.

On all the other large plots that comprised the Rivonia Estate, the prosperous new owners - entrepreneurs and stockbrokers and successful doctors - had built large pretentious homes, most of them in the low sprawling ranch house style which was the rage, or with pink clay tile roofs, imaginative copies of Mexican haciendas or Mediterranean villas, and they had surrounded the main buildings with paddocks and stables, with tennis courts and swimming-pools and wide lawns that the winter highveld frosts burned the colour of cured tobacco leaves.

In front of him stretched lawns on which a single small sprinkler was trying to atone for all the frosts and drought of the highveld winter, but the Kikuyu grass was scared and lifeless.