frore
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The Mission Church smelt strongly of soap and stale incense, and in the frore atmosphere the coloured pictures on the walls looked more than usually crude and violent.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie
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
The world outside was lit; wrapped in that frore splendour which the night unrolls over lands of snow when the sky is clear and the moon is shining.
From Maria Chapdelaine by W. H. Blake
Milton writes:— "…the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire."
From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck
While the brief sun gave New beauty to the death-flower of the frost, And pigeons in the frore air swooped and tossed, And glad eyes were more glad, and grave less grave.
From Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh by Sir Edward Howard Marsh
