frore
Example Sentences
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Frozen, from the Anglo-Saxon froren. "... the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire."
From Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems by Arnold, Matthew
My frame is withered, my visage old, My locks are frore, and my bones ice cold.
From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison
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)
A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John
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
