frore

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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 Blake, W. H.

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)

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

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

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