As a result with the sky clearing near dusk there was heavy hoarfrost.
Zakhar held back his horses and turned his face, which was already covered with hoarfrost to his eyebrows.
Hussars, ladies, witches, clowns, and bears, after clearing their throats and wiping the hoarfrost from their faces in the vestibule, came into the ballroom where candles were hurriedly lighted.
A huge campfire was blazing brightly in the midst of the snow, lighting up the branches of trees heavy with hoarfrost.
