frore
Example Sentences
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Morfydd, all my world and more, Lies low in churchyard gravel; While beneath the burthen frore Of age alone I travel.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves
My little white goat that with raised feet huggest The oak stock, thy horns in the ivies frore, Could I wrestle like thee—how the wreaths thou tuggest!—
From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
A sadder sweetness than before Shook her pale, smiling lips; She waved adieu through vapours hoar, And vanished in the shadows frore Among the heedless ships ...
From Ioläus The man that was a ghost by James Allan Mackereth
In Milton's lines, —— the piercing air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire,—Paradise Lost, b. ii., we have a form from the Anglo-Saxon participle gefroren = frozen.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
Time's ocean o'er us will, in silence frore, Aeonian tides of change-filled seasons roll, And our long, dark, appointed period fill.
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald
