Translations for frost in French

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I seated myself in his arm-chair and warmed my hands before his crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to it—that it is the clew which will guide you in the solution of some mystery and the punishment of some crime." Je m’assis dans un fauteuil ; il faisait un froid noir, les vitres étaient couvertes de givre et tout en me chauffant les mains au feu qui pétillait dans la cheminée : — Je suppose, dis-je, que le fait qui vous occupe, quelque simple qu’il paraisse, a trait à un meurtre quelconque et que voilà l’indice au moyen duquel vous découvrirez un mystère et vous punirez un crime.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes, de Arthur Conan Doyle