frore

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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 Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Progress was slow, and the Polar night gathered round us apace, as we stole still onward and onward into that blue and glimmering land of eternal frore.

From The Purple Cloud by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)

When the first rose flush was steeping All the frore peak's awful crown, Shepherds say, they found you sleeping In some windless valley, farther down.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Arnold, Matthew

Must I, thy Bard, grow old, Bent, with the temples frore, Not jocund be nor bold, To tune for folk in May Ballad and virelay?

From Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II by Dobson, Austin

Small solace did they take From that frore radiance glistering on the dull Black desert gripped in iron silences, Like a false triumph o'er contestless fates, Or a mirage of life in wastes of Death.

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton