frore

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Feet and faces tingle In that frore land: Legs wobble and go wingle, You scarce can stand.

From Fairies and Fusiliers by Graves, Robert

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)

Earliest heats that follow frore Nervèd leaf of hellebore, Sweet willow, checkerberry red, With its savory leaf for bread.

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Milton writes:— "…the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire."

From Halleck's New English Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post

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)