As if she instinctively felt and resented something in the man which his act symbolized, the girl answered quietly, as she went on with her work, "Yes, if the frost does not touch me, or careless people spoil me too soon."

Even Brussels sprouts are sweeter if the frost has touched them.

His hair stood back from his face as if he were crowned with flames, and it was a brilliant red, except where frost touched it at the temples, and on his full beard.

The first frosts of autumn had touched the trees with brushes of gold and red; hardy prairie flowers bloomed on every side.

Joseph was a Shangaan approaching sixty years of age, the first frost was touching his hair.

It would not be long, a matter of days, before the first frost touched those last few precious grapes that had been left on chosen vines to become-if all fell rightly-the icy clear blue wine that was the pride of Astibar.

The Michelmas daisies were blooming profusely, but an early frost had touched some of the other flowers.

Early frost had touched the heights with its magic wand.

The great evergreens stood impervious to autumn's threats, but frost had just touched the leaves of the small bushes and plants that grew on the mossy roof, outlining some in yellow and blushing others to red.

But frost touched only a few areas, skirting the main producing regions altogether, said Esther Eskenasy, an analyst with Cargill Investor Services Inc. in New York.