Better you wait for freeze-up,' he added, looking at me.

Gold-seekers who made in before the freeze-up carried the news of his coming.

Beavers lay in a good supply of food before freeze-up.

One of his wildest plays took place in the early winter after the freeze-up.

That the freeze-up might come any day was patent, and delays of safety were no longer considered.

Failure to observe these precautions will almost certainly lead to a freeze-up.

You're in a hurry to get in before the freeze-up.

The freeze-up caught us and ice formed so thick that in the end we couldn't use the canoe.

The dripping action will keep the water moving in the pipes and avert freeze-up.

They could not disobey them without risking complete mental freeze-up.

A person is a cheechako until they've lived here from freeze-up to thaw.

Freeze-up occurs in mid October, providing only a few months of navigation.

Just to feed his dogs through the winter he had to catch 2,000 salmon, fishing for weeks before the freeze-up.

Old-timers from Henderson have told me a number of outfits went up last fall after the freeze-up.

Those who stay don't expect a meltdown; without electricity and heating, however, there may be a freeze-up.

He told us that during the January 'freeze-up' there had been a great influx of shelduck.

November was the traditional last month of shipping before the winter layup (and lake freeze-up).

'Any moment now you can expect the freeze-up.

There's a bare month before freeze-up - maybe less.'

And each morn, toil-stiffened men turned wan faces across the lake to see if the freeze-up had come.

During spring thaw and fall freeze-up neither was accessibile.

In Dawson City a thousand men, with dog-teams, were waiting the freeze-up to come out over the ice.

That freeze-up problem was the only drawback to the suspension; it gave a smooth ride over rugged terrain.

If a freeze-up is imminent, oil can be flushed back into the wells and the pipes filled instead with methanol or natural gas.

What he had in mind would either liberate their thinking or send them into a contradictory mental freeze-up that could destroy them.

Who knows how much water has already been frozen up?

His eyes had started to freeze up, but you never knew.

She thought he was going to freeze up on her.

If he was any other man in the world I could simply freeze up and order' him off.

What happened in the winter, did it ever freeze up?

He looked that way and felt something freeze up tight within him.

More likely, they get scared and just freeze up, even in the road with a car coming.

I was beginning to freeze up solid, just sitting there.

"For a minute there, I thought you were freezing up or something."

"Ground's not frozen up yet, so we've no chance of getting through."

Probably some meat went bad, before the ship froze up.

I thought once a robot froze up, it was dead for good.

Then she remembered what her husband had been put through that morning and froze up again.

It was so cold that anything you said had frozen up before leaving your mouth.

She tried to think of some clever response, but her mind froze up.

"People live longer all the time, but they still freeze up pretty early.

"What if I meet the right guy, freeze up, and he goes away?"

He freezes up and doesn't know what to say to them.

I loved you, she thought as her lungs froze up.

The rolls may be made and frozen up to 2 days in advance.

During the winter, the water in leads quickly freezes up.

It'll freeze up pretty soon, but you'll have a blood smell on your clothes.

There had been no evidence that the Nets could play the final minutes of a close game without freezing up.

"It's more as though something inside me just freezes up.

When the knights see an ambassador coming, they freeze up.