Cold-a bite of frost so bitter and so deep that it was worse than any pain I had ever known.

But that night was bitter frost.

There was a bitter frost that day.

The winter of 1894-1895 produced a bitter frost that killed citrus trees as far south as Palm Beach.

The evening was mild, but later that night a blizzard broke loose and heavy snow and bitter frost settled over the plains of Lithuania.

The bitter frost would last interminably, and then suddenly, 'with or without permission', it ended.

The bitter black frost held Drake firmly in its talons.

The best and warmest place round the camp fire was always given to the children, but even so the bitter frost would cause them to shiver.

In this, the month of February of the year 1346, hard and bitter frost held Suffolk in its grip.

They crossed Severn by the ford at Pool, in the bitter frost of a dark dawn.