frore

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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

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

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)

A sadder sweetness than before Shook her pale, smiling lips; She waved adieu through vapours hoar, And vanished in the shadows frore Among the heedless ships ...

From Ioläus The man that was a ghost by Mackereth, James Allan

The time was early August; but nevertheless there was a tang of frost in the air and the river seemed to flow not water but a thick frore fog.

From The River and I by Neihardt, John G.