frore

Example Sentences

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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

My frame is withered, my visage old, My locks are frore, and my bones ice cold.

From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison

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

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

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.