Out front, packs of teen-agers chatted animatedly in the frosty pre-dawn darkness while the handful of parents among them observed that the same kids seemed to find it impossible to get out of bed on school days.

However, she laid his cloak over his shoulders, and they went out into the crisp, frosty darkness.

The original ice hotel is here (in Jukkusjarvi, Sweden) but as well as husky rides and cross-country skiing the real thrill of being here is meeting the local Sami indigenous people and marvelling at just how well they cope with months of frosty darkness.

She stirred, pushing back folds of cold-stiffened fur from her face to blink into the frosty darkness.

He, too, remembered the lost pack and sought it, seeing the bare hills of snow and the stars glimmering overhead through the frosty darkness of night, hearing the faint answering howls from other hills as the pack assembled.

The four members of the penetration team slipped from the van and merged with the frosty darkness.

In the frosty darkness outside the Queens Criminal Court Building in Kew Gardens, a 26-year-old man emerged from a basement exit last night and jubilantly fell into the arms of weeping, whooping relatives and friends.