Continuous indoor fires could not prevent interior frost and snow in an unsealed cabin.

Evidence

In the living room, the snow was driving through the chinks, and Mrs. Dewy was shoveling it from the floor. Mr. D.’s beard was hoary with frost in a room with a fire all night. Evans was lying ill, with his bed covered with snow. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 152

Categorization

• CANDY: A man’s beard frosted solid beside a fire that burned all night is a great one-line image for a dinner-table anecdote.
• XREF: connects to: Fire cannot raise a snowbound cabin’s temperature above twenty degrees. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 240

Broader Connections

• Fire cannot raise a snowbound cabin’s temperature above twenty degrees. #complicates (0.85) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 240