It persists because too much of what we call virtue is negative, and selfish, and frost-bound,cold storage virtue,the poor piety which terminates in a trembling anxiety to save our own souls.

Here poppies that no hand hath sown Bloom white as foam upon the sea, And elfin bells to earth unknown Hold frost-bound melody.

"'Yes, here it will be a poor and frost-bound land,' said our Lord, 'it can't be helped.'

His eye roamed over the wide prospect; and the leafless trees, the bare hedges, and the frost-bound fields seemed pleasant in his sight.

When I came here from Rome, Among the Alps, all through one frost-bound dawn, Waiting with sealed lips the noisy day, I walked upon a marble mead of snow An angel's spotless plume, laid there for me: Then from the hillside, in the melting noon, Looked down the gorge, and lo!

I found the fiend had pursued his journey across the frost-bound sea in a direction that led to no land, and exchanging my land sledge for one fashioned for the Frozen Ocean I followed him.

The human mind could not conceive a more infinite bigness than this gleaming frost-bound waste stretched to the horizon beneath the blazing winter sun.

Now comes a discordant squeaking of iron axles that have not been greased, and the jolting sound of wheels passing over ruts whose edges are hard and frost-bound.

The ground on each side of them shone white and hard in the frost-bound silence.