frore

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The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.6 The “Inferno” of Dante has also “its eternal darkness for the dwellers in fierce heat and in ice.”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

Must I, thy Bard, grow old, Bent, with the temples frore, Not jocund be nor bold, To tune for folk in May Ballad and virelay?

From Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II by Dobson, Austin

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.

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)

How oft we drove the horsemen blue   In Summer bright or Winter frore!

From War Poetry of the South by Various