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)

Cold from the first, her breast grew frore, and bit Her kind lord's bosom with its stinging frost.

From The Poems of William Watson by Watson, William

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 MacKenzie, Compton

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