frore
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Great Pentheus, Lord of all this Theban land, I come from high Kithaeron, where the frore Snow spangles gleam and cease not evermore.
From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes
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)
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 Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
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 Poems New and Old by Freeman, John
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 MacDonald, George
